GEV 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mcworld, American Imperialism, Immigration

• School: Villanova University
• Department: Geography and the Environment
• Course: GEV 1002
• Professor: Bonnie Henderson

Document Summary

Ways like lack of sturdy housing, shelters, lack of constructed emergency structures, slower lines of communication, no coast guard, organized emergency response, reconstruction is slower, preparedness. Shocking for us to not know how to deal with hurricane katrina. Geotechniques and the tsunami: mapping the satellite imagery, overlay with population density and location (finished going over last weeks lecture) Globalization and the interaction between regions: global connections, commonplace to share culture, trends, world trade: clothes made in china, fruit from south america breakfast as the end product of a global network. Internet has helped, but relationships began with european colonialism: rapid transportation, technology etc creates daily interactions, the time element/limitation has disappeared, ex) cacao price can fluctuate overnight. Time/space compression (term geographers use to describe how the effects of time and distance and communication are less important than they used to be. Race to the bottom: wages, labor, outsources, growing inequality, resource extraction.