ECONOMIC
GEOGRAPHY
Lecturer: Dr. NGUYEN Dinh Tien, VNU-UEB
Email: nguyendinhtien@vnu.edu.vn
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Introduce yourself
What is your motivation and expectation from this course?
1. OBJECTIVES OF LECTURE
i. To understand the key concepts and principles of the traditional economic
geography and the theories of the New Economic Geography (NEG).
ii. To apply key concepts and principles of economic geography in making decision
in economic development at national, regional and global scales including
Vietnam.
iii. To analyze, from a temporal-spatial perspective, the relevance of exhausted
resources related to the territorial morphology and shape of national economies
to public decision-makers, as well as private individuals and firms.
2. CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Key concepts and approaches in economic geography
1.1 Introduction
1.1.1. Key concepts
1.1.2. Key themes: globalisation, uneven development and place
1.1.3. The economy and economic geography
1.2. Approaches to economic geography
1.2.1. Spatial analysis
1.2.2. The New Economic Geography (NEG)
1.2.3. Geographical political economy
1.2.4. New approaches in economic geography
1.3. Alternative economic geographies
1.3.1. Capitalism and its alternatives
1.3.2. Alternative economic spaces
1.3.3. Alternative global networks of trade and development
2. CONTENTS
Chapter 2. Principles of economic geography
2.1. Location of Economic Activities
2.1.1. Location of primary production: Von Thunen’s Model
2.1.2. Location of secondary production: Weber’s Model
2.1.3. Location of tertiary production: Christaller’s theory
2.2. Geographic model of resources
2.3. Geographic model of Factors of Production
2.4. Geographic model of transportation
2.5. Economics and Scale
2.6. Geography of economic development
2.7. Geography of international trade
2. CONTENTS
Chapter 3. Territorial morphology and shape of national economies
3.1. Compact shape states
3.1.1. Definition
3.1.2. Problems
3.1.3. Case studies
3.2. Elongated shape states
3.3. Prorupted shape states
3.4. Perforated shape states
3.5. Fragmented shape states
2. CONTENTS
Chapter 4. The geography of world regional economy
4.1. Global Economic Geographies
4.2. World economic pattern
4.3. Pattern of the core and periphery economies
4.4. Adjusting to the world economy
4.5. Descriptions of world regional geography
4.5.1. Europe
4.5.2. Russia
4.5.3. North America
4.5.4. Middle and South America
4.5.5. Sub-Saharan Africa
4.5.6. North Africa and Southwest Asia
4.5.7. South Asia
4.5.8. East and Southeast Asia
4.5.9. Oceania
2. CONTENTS
Chapter 5. Economic geography of Vietnam
5.1. Spatial pattern of Vietnam economy
5.1.1. Regional zoning
5.1.2. Geography of Vietnam mountains
5.1.3. Geography of Vietnam coasts
5.2. Contemporary issues in economic geography of Vietnam
5.2.1. Economic renovation
5.2.2. Economic modernization and private sector development
5.2.3. National innovation capacity
5.2.4. Urbanization for greater economic efficiency
5.2.5. Sustainable development, green economy and climate-resilient growth
5.2.6. Equity and social inclusion
5.2.7. Modern institutions for an effective state
3. LEARNING MATERIALS
3. LEARNING MATERIALS
3. LEARNING MATERIALS
4. COURSE SCHEDULE
4. COURSE SCHEDULE
4. COURSE SCHEDULE
Q&A ?
Chapter 1.
KEY CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES IN
ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
Lecturer: Dr. NGUYEN Dinh Tien, VNU-UEB
KEY CONCEPTS
1. Economic Geography
• ‘Economic activity’:
• Anything people buy, barter, or work to produce,
consume, or exchange is an economic activity.
• ‘Geography’:
• is the study of spatial variation on the earth’s surface
inclusive of all spheres, i.e. Lithosphere, Atmosphere,
Hydrosphere, and Biosphere
• The word geography has Greek roots: “geo” means
“earth” and “graphos” means
“description”. Thus, “geography” means
“description of the earth”.
Economic Geography: definitions
• the study of spatial variation on earth’s surface of production, exchange &
consumption of goods, services/information
• the study of the spatial distribution of human beings economic activities in relation
to its environment, be it physical or non-physical
• “the study of the spatial variation on the earth’s surface of activities related to
production, exchanging and consuming goods and services… wherever possible, the
goal is to develop generalizations and theories to account for these spatial variations
… Economic geography refers to the field of study focussed on the location of
economic activity at the local, national and world scale.” (Hartshorne & Alexander)
Economic Geography: definitions
• “It deals with the economic and commercial aspects of man on earth and the
influences on these of the environment in its broadest sense. The adjective
‘Economic’ confines the geographer to the economic problems and system of man
and as such he must know something of the principle of economics” (JANAKI)
• It “… involves consideration of the geographical and other factors which influence
man’s productivity, but only in limited depths in so far as they are connected with
production and trade” (DUDLEY STAMP)
• “Economic geography deals with the economic life of man with relation to
environment” (ZIMMERMANN).
Economic Geography: definitions
• “Economic geography may be defined as an enquiry into the production, exchange
and consumption of goods by people in different areas of the world. Particular
emphasis is placed on the location of economic activity - upon asking just why
economic functions are situated where they are in this world.” (R.S. THOMAN)
• It , “…Forms some reasonable estimate of the future course of commercial
development”, as det ermined by geographical factors” (CHISHOLM)
Economic Geography: definitions
• “Economic geography is that branch of geography which deals with the influence of
so-called geographical and extra-terresterial factors on economic activities of human
beings on earth and in universe from a spatial perspective in the short run in
juxtaposition with primacy of the influence of nongeographical and extra-terresterial
factors on such spatially varied economic activities in the long run.” (SHER SINGH
PARMAR)
Spatial –
Applicability
Scope Model of
Economic
Geography TEMPORAL SCOPE:
1. Ancient,
2. Medieval,
3. Great Age of discovery
4. 19th century
5. 20th century
6. Contemporary
7. Recent
8. Present ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
SCOPE:
- Production
- Exchange
- Consumption
Point out the differences
between Economics &
Economic Geography
