Geography 2010A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Polar Desert, Geomorphology, Innuitian Mountains
31 Jan 2017
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Canada(cid:495)s regions are divided into a core/periphery model designed by john. Canada has a core and three peripheries. Friedmann: core region centred on manufacturing (ontario and quebec) Focus of economic, political, and social activity. Highly urbanized and industrialized: rapidly growing region based on expanding resource base (bc and. Economy and population are rapidly growing as capital and labour flow in the area. Great emphasis on manufacturing and service activities: slow growing region based on decline of resource base (atlantic. Declining economy, unemployment rate increases, out- migration increasing. Previously dependent on resources that are now exhausted: resource frontier region where many resources exist but few are viable (territorial north) Resource companies being formed as energy and mineral. Resources is significantly more important as the world becomes more industrialized, the prices are going to increase. Manufacturing cores will experience a decrease in price of the products as lo- cost labour is introduced manufacturing core experiences decline.
