Standards:
VI. Industrialization and Economic Development
A. Growth and diffusion of industrialization
1. The changing roles of energy and technology
2. Industrial Revolution
3. Models of economic development: Rostow’s Stages of Economic Growth and Wallerstein’s World Systems Theory
4. Geographic critiques of models of industrial location: bid rent, Weber’s comparative costs of transportation and industrial location in relation to resources, location of retailing and service industries, and local economic development within competitive global systems of corporations and finance
B. Social and economic measures of development
1. Gross domestic product and GDP per capita
2. Human Development Index
3. Gender Inequality Index
4. Income disparity and the Gini coefficient
5. Changes in fertility and mortality
6. Access to health care, education, utilities, and sanitation
C. Contemporary patterns and impacts of industrialization and development
1. Spatial organization of the world economy
2. Variations in levels of development (uneven development)
3. Deindustrialization, economic restructuring, and the rise of service and high technology economies
4. Globalization, manufacturing in newly industrialized countries (NICs), and the international division of labor
5. Natural resource depletion, pollution, and climate change
6. Sustainable development
7. Government development initiatives: local, regional, and national policies
8. Women in development and gender equity in the workforce
VI. Industrialization and Economic Development
A. Growth and diffusion of industrialization
1. The changing roles of energy and technology
2. Industrial Revolution
3. Models of economic development: Rostow’s Stages of Economic Growth and Wallerstein’s World Systems Theory
4. Geographic critiques of models of industrial location: bid rent, Weber’s comparative costs of transportation and industrial location in relation to resources, location of retailing and service industries, and local economic development within competitive global systems of corporations and finance
B. Social and economic measures of development
1. Gross domestic product and GDP per capita
2. Human Development Index
3. Gender Inequality Index
4. Income disparity and the Gini coefficient
5. Changes in fertility and mortality
6. Access to health care, education, utilities, and sanitation
C. Contemporary patterns and impacts of industrialization and development
1. Spatial organization of the world economy
2. Variations in levels of development (uneven development)
3. Deindustrialization, economic restructuring, and the rise of service and high technology economies
4. Globalization, manufacturing in newly industrialized countries (NICs), and the international division of labor
5. Natural resource depletion, pollution, and climate change
6. Sustainable development
7. Government development initiatives: local, regional, and national policies
8. Women in development and gender equity in the workforce
Assessments:
Chapter 9 and 11 Reading Questions
Chapter 9 Vocabulary Quiz
Chapter 11 Vocabulary Quiz
Unit 6 Vocabulary Test
Europe Map Test
Take Home FRQ
Unit 6 Country Profile
Chapter 9 and 11 Reading Questions
Chapter 9 Vocabulary Quiz
Chapter 11 Vocabulary Quiz
Unit 6 Vocabulary Test
Europe Map Test
Take Home FRQ
Unit 6 Country Profile
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