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B015424 - ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
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Prerequisites
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Course program
Academic Year 2017-18
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Economics and Management (DISEI)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
M-GGR/02 - ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
26/02/2018 ⇒ 01/06/2018
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B015424 - GEOGRAFIA ECONOMICA
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in ECONOMICS AND TRADE
Curriculum ECONOMIA E COMMERCIO
B015424 - GEOGRAFIA ECONOMICA
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in ECONOMICS AND TRADE
Curriculum ECONOMIA E COMMERCIO
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
This course provides an introduction to economic geography. The course explores processes driving spatial patterns of economic activity at the global, national, regional, and local scales. Topic areas include theories and models that plan and govern territories; environment and natural resources spatial distribution of industrial sectors, population flows, urban globalization.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
G. Dematteis, C. Lanza, F. Nano, A. Vanolo, "Geografia dell'economia mondiale", Utet, 2010
Learning Objectives
It is expected that a student completing this class will be able to know the significance of geoeconomic methodologies: recognize the territorial processes at the global-national-regional-local scales; identify how society and economic actors organize themselves in space (production, circulation, consumption); assess the pressure on the environment.
Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of Economic Geography is requested.
Teaching Methods
Lessons ant thematic seminaries.
Further information
Attending class is not compulsory but will be important in helping you do well in the course.
Type of Assessment
Written final examination; 3/4 open questions, time 30/40 minutes
Course program
- geoeconomic space, territories and regions;
- cartography and GIS;
- globalization;
- environment and the sustainable development;
- natural resources, ecological footprint, and global warming.
- population, migration and mobility;
- mining and fuels production and consumption;
- industrial activities, esternal economies of agglomeration and delocalization;
- international trade and transport network;
- tourism and sustainable tourism;
- the evolution of the cities.
- cartography and GIS;
- globalization;
- environment and the sustainable development;
- natural resources, ecological footprint, and global warming.
- population, migration and mobility;
- mining and fuels production and consumption;
- industrial activities, esternal economies of agglomeration and delocalization;
- international trade and transport network;
- tourism and sustainable tourism;
- the evolution of the cities.