GEOG 1700 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Globalization, Buy More, Wyckoff, New Jersey
GEOG 1700
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
1/16/18
Globalization, Diversity, and World Regional Geography
A. Types of Regions
• Formal regions
o Places tied together by common characteristics
• Nodal regions (ex. Airline systems)
o Places tied together by common connection point
• Functional regions (ex. Federal Reserve Districts)
o Places tied together by common authority
• Vernacular regions are popularly used without strict definition
B. Globalization
• Inreasing integration of orld’s regions
o People, inc. labor and education
o Business
o Society and culture
o Sports and other entertainment
• Early globalization- the British Empire (and others)
• Contemporary globalization- cooperate empires
• Global cities- London, Tokyo, NY, and others
• Enabling technologies brings places closer together
• Key factors include changes in:
o transport; communications; multinational corporations (transnational corps.);
trade and financial policy liberalization; global institutions
• The UN is the premier global institution
o Has a large number of affiliates
o The Security Council of the UN is largely concerned with peacekeeping
o The General Assembly of the UN is focused more on development issues
o The international Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group are both
nominally UN organizations
▪ But they are headquartered in Washington, D.C., not New York
• The G-8 consists of the U.S., Japan, Germany, the U.K., France, Italy, Canada, and Russia
(and EU reps.)
• It has a leadership role in current World Bank initiatives:
o African development
o Climate change
o Debt relief
• The G20 is designed to be more inclusive than the G8, especially of developing countries
• The WTO emerged from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1995 – it
has 145+ members. Russia joined the WTO in mid- 2012.
• The Basel Conention regulates trade in hazardous aste
• Not all global trade is endorsed, but even illegal activity is facilitated by relative ease of
international movement (and corruption)
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• Globalization should increase economic growth, but many people have concerns about
other effects
o social justice
o environment
o sovereignty
o cultural diversity
• For example, many people are concerned about the loss of native languages due to the
idespread use of gloal ones
• The widespread use of English (a global language?) is associated with a loss of linguistic
diversity –
but there is a backlash in some places
(e.g. Jamaica, the EU)
• Foreign language instruction is growing in the U.S. – often business related
• Preference for globalization varies widely from country to country
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Document Summary
Globalization, diversity, and world regional geography: types of regions, formal regions, places tied together by common characteristics, nodal regions (ex. Airline systems: places tied together by common connection point, functional regions (ex. Federal reserve districts: places tied together by common authority, vernacular regions are popularly used without strict definition, globalization. What are three of the key issues surrounding u. s. immigration policy? (see chapter 3) One key issue surrounding u. s. immigration policy is how many legal immigrants should be allowed to come into the country. There are 43. 3 million people who are foreign-born living in the united stated. 13. 1 million of these people are legal immigrants and 11. 1 million are illegal migrants. The key arguments for this topic are that by letting too many immigrants into the country many american jobs will be taken. On the contrary, it can also be looked at that by letting in more immigrants, businesses and the economy can boost and prosper.
