Economic Geography

1. Economic geography -- (the branch of geography concerned with the production and distribution of commodities)

(http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn?stage=1&word=economic+geography)

2. Economic geography is concerned with the location and distribution of economic activity. It focuses on the the location of industries and retail and wholesale businesses, on transportation and trade, and on the changing value of real estate.

(http://www.aag.org/Careers/Economic_Geography.html)

3. “Economic geography is concerned with the spatial organization and distribution of economic activity, the use of the world’s resources, and the distribution and expansion of the world economy” [Stutz and de Souza 1998: 41].

(http://faculty.washington.edu/jwh/207tr01.htm)

4. "In Economic Geography, we study the (locational, organizational and behavioral) principles and processes associated with the spatial allocation of scarce (human, man-made and natural) resources (which are also distributed spatially) and the spatial patterns and (direct and indirect, social, environmental and economic) consequences resulting from such allocations."

(http://faculty.washington.edu/~krumme/207/concepts/ebg.html )

5. “Economic geography is interested in the particular spatial dimensions of commodification: what is produced and consumed where, and to what extent do geographical influences affect what we consume and produce. But remember that economic geography is not only about goods and services provided in the market. Economies are also dependent on non-market relationship. For example it is estimated that only 100 million of the 280 million hours of work required each week to sustain the economy of London are paid for. The unpaid work includes housework, parents and relatives providing child care, voluntary work to support vital local services etc.” (http://www.ex.ac.uk/geography/modules/GEO1102/1.htm)

6. “Economics is the science of wealth. Geography is the science of the earth. Economic geography, a hybrid science, is hterefore the systemattic study of wealth which had its origin in the earth, such wealth being found not only in the earth;s crust or core, but in its oceans and seas, and in its gaseous envelope, the atmosphere.” (Hope 1965, 1)

7. “Economic Geography may be defined as the study of the influence exerted upon