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Economic Geography and Natural Resources

Economic Geography and Global Resources

A survey of how agriculture, energy, industry, and trade are distributed unevenly across the globe, and how that uneven distribution shapes development, geopolitics, and inequality.

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  1. Global Agriculture and Food Production. Farming systems, the Green Revolution, cash crops, livestock, and fisheries feed the world unevenly.
  2. Fossil Fuels and the Energy Transition. Oil, gas, coal, hydropower, and renewables are unevenly distributed, driving a regionally uneven energy transition.
  3. Mining and Critical Minerals. Ore belts, precious metals, rare earths, and lithium concentrate critical minerals in a few key regions.
  4. Global Manufacturing and Industrial Regions. Industrial regions from the Rust Belt to the Pearl River Delta show manufacturing's shifting geography.
  5. Trade Routes and Global Supply Chains. Chokepoints, container ports, and trade blocs connect, and can disrupt, global supply chains.
  6. Regional Economic Development. Development paths diverge sharply across Africa, Latin America, Asia, and post-socialist economies.
  7. Globalization, Inequality, and the Resource Curse. Globalization, tourism, informal economies, and the resource curse reveal deep global inequality.

This is the starting point of Economic Geography and Natural Resources: you don't need any prior knowledge of this subject to begin.

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1Global Agriculture and Food Production
2Mining and Critical Minerals
3Global Manufacturing and Industrial Regions
4Regional Economic Development
5Globalization, Inequality, and the Resource Curse

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Further reading

Bibliography and cited sources used to create this module.

  • Coe, N. M., Kelly, P. F., and Yeung, H. W. C. (2020). Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Knox, P., Agnew, J., and McCarthy, L. (2014). The Geography of the World Economy. London: Routledge.
  • International Energy Agency. (2023). World Energy Outlook. Paris: IEA. https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2023
  • World Bank. (2022). Commodity Markets Outlook. Washington, DC: World Bank Group. https://www.worldbank.org/en/research/commodity-markets
  • Wallerstein, I. (1974). The Modern World-System. New York: Academic Press.