Geography, History and Culture Cateora ch' 3 10th ed

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Geography, History and Culture Cateora ch. 3
(10th ed)

• culture a societys program for survival?
• geography shapes a nations development
• natural borders (rivers, mountains, sea)
  contribute to the creation of nations
• space (or lack of it) influence life styles and
  social organization
• link civilization and rice / irrigation need to
  organize large numbers of people

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Need to Know

• knowledge of geography
• main cities, rivers, mountains, regions
• and of history
• basic notions of a countrys history
• foundation / its alliances and wars
• its system of government
• a few of its great men and women

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Geography Changes!

• new transport routes
• tunnels
• bridges
• landbridges (Trans-Siberian, coast-to-coast
  rail links, round-the-world ocean services,
  transpolar air services, etc)
• time zones - not distance - becomes the key
  factor in doing business

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Environmental Management and Sustainable
Development 1992 Rio Summit (The Earth
Summit)

• A UN Conference on Environment and Development
  (UNCED), attended by more than 100 world leaders
  with 178 governments
• A major difficulty North-South divide (e.g., oil
  countries against measures to save energy /
  reduce emissions)
• the true challenge to incorporate cost of
  pollution in pricing mechanism
• an ethical problem for marketing?

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World Population 1750 - 2050

• Year 1750 1.0 B
• 1950 2.5 B
• 2000 6.0 B
• 2050 8.5 B (medium forecast)
• after 2050 start declining?
• assuming fertility at 1.85 if at 1.6 (current
  rate in industrial world) 7.7 B
• Source
• U.N. Population Division (NYT Magazine, Nov. 23,
  1997, pp. 60 -)

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Triad Trade Merchandise 1997 Total US 543.3
Billions Source Strategis
Note These statistics are different from those
given in Cateora p. 76 which are
not from official sources