Please note: This Geography 207 glossary is supposed to complement not replace existing glossaries in Economic Geography. Please be critical of all glossaries you are using. Point out inconsistencies or discrepancies. Do not hesitate to suggest to me (by E-mail or informal written notes) to use this glossary to address any ambiguities you may have found or to add definitions, explanations or clarifications which you cannot find elsewhere.

Goodall, Brian, Dictionary of Human Geography, Penguin 1987 (On Reserve in OUGL)

Johnston, R.J. et al., Dictionary of Human Geography, 3rd ed., 1994 (On Reserve in OUGL)

Other Glossaries

Telecommunications Glossaries

There are two Dictionaries of Human Geography on reserve in OUGL, one by Brian Goodall, the other by R.J. Johnston et al. The two are quite different in nature. Goodall provides generally shorter, more concise definitions and explanations and has a larger coverage, while Johnston provides more detailed treatments of less concepts. Many of these expositions have strong political-economy overtones.

In addition, there is an online glossary available with much shorter definitions and/or referrals to other Websites. This glossary is incomplete and "under construction".

Finally, our text book (Stutz) has a glossary in the back of the book. Here the definition have become so short that they are often insufficient representations of the underlying concepts.

WEEK 1:

Economic Geography; Economics; Geography; Industrial Geography; Land Economics; Marketing Geography; Microeconomics; Regional Science; Transport Geography; Urban Geography; Location Theory; Economic Geography; Space Economy; Welfare Geography; Theory; Hypothesis; Law; Model;

WEEK 2:

ceteris paribus; deduction; induction; model; theory; trade-off; variable;

WEEK 3:

division of labor; footloose Industry; Industrial Complex; Industrial Inertia;

WEEK 4:

GOODALL: birth rates; brain drain; Club of Rome; cohort; cohort survival method; death rates; demographic transition; demography; fertility rates; infant mortality; life expectancy; Malthusian (Thomas R. Malthus') theory of population; population; population equation; population projections; population pyramids; product (life) cycle; total fertility rate (TFR);

WEEK 5:

GOODALL: Industrial Location Theory; localized material; Weber Model; locational triangle; cost structure; Cost; Surface Market Orientation; Material Orientation; isolines; isodapane; critical isodapane; Variable Cost Analysis; Variable Revenue Analysis; Spatial Margin; Market Orientation; material index; production function; range of tolerance; spatial margins; ubiquity; Weber's Theory of Industrial Location;

WEEK 6:

Locational interdependence; Concentration and Centralization; Decentralization; Counterurbanization; Production Complex; Congestion; Pollution; Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces; Core-Periphery Model;

WEEK 7:

GOODALL: International Air Transport Association (IATA); Transport infrastructure;

WEEK 8:

GOODALL: basic activities; basic/non-basic activities; economic base (export base) theory; environmental impact assessment; indirect & induced effects; input-output analysis; multipliers & multiplier effects;

WEEK 9:

GOODALL: arithmetic mean (average); Gross Domestic (or National) Product (GDP/GNP); measurement; median; quality of life; value added;

WEEK 10:

GOODALL: backwash effects; core-periphery model; dependence; development stages theory of growth; dominant industry; dual economy; growth pole; industrialization; industrial location policy; infant industry; propulsive industry; Rostow model; spread effects; take-off;