1. Agenda ► Questions? ► Review  Defining economic geography  Subfields of economic geography (Economic sectors) See NAICS link  Approaches to economic geography ► Home sweet home ► Globalization trends ► Population, the Prime Variable

2. What approach would you take, as an economic geographer, to understand this landscape?

3. Globalization ► Origins with Marshall McLuhan, the “global village” – a Canadian!  Time-space compression ► More than internationalization – extension of economic activity across national borders  Essentially quantitative changes ► Process of qualitative change in functional integration (organization) of internationally dispersed activities

4. Globalization defined ► Process by which people, ideas and activities become interconnected, integrated and drawn into the same social space at the same time.  International trade in commodities  Factors of production  Information and attitudes/fashions/movements  Ecological interdependence

5. Globalization Trends ► Capital mobility ► Hegemony of Multinational firms ► Deregulation  Nation-state has been weakened ► Global dualism – contradictory forces  Supranationalism and convergence ► Global homogeneity (McDonaldization) ► Multinational trade blocs

6. McDonald’s in Beijing

7. Globalization Trends ► Capital mobility ► Hegemony of Multinational firms ► Deregulation  Nation-state has been weakened ► Global dualism – contradictory forces  Supranationalism and convergence ► Global homogeneity (McDonaldization) ► Multinational trade blocs  Divergence/nationalism ► Devolutionary forces ► Underdevelopment and growing gap

8. Global Population Processes 1. Population structure 2. Population distribution 3. Population growth 4. Population and resources

9. Population density: Global scale

10. Population density: Continental scale

11. Population distribution: density ► Market potential:  Population  Purchasing power  Close enough to patronize the market ► Ecological footprint ► Urban concentrations  Megacities >10,000,000

12. Population Growth ► Geographic variation ► Components of change  Births  Deaths  Net migration ► In-migration ► Out-migration ► Demographic Transition Model

13. Population Growth

14. Demographic Transition Model

15. Calgary-EdmontonCorridor