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Development Geography - Coggle Diagram
Development Geography
The concept and terminology of development
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Many generalisations. Terminlogy is complex.
Noth-South divide
Social development
Economic development
Sustainable development
DEVELOPMENT
= THE USE OF RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND STANDARD OF LIVING IN A COUNTRY
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
= DEVELOPMENT THAT MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE CURRENT SITUATION, WHITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR NEEDS
Sustainable development in our Bill of Rights...
The scale of development:
individual, community, settlement (e.g. town/city), country, region, continent, global
Indicators of development
Economic indicators
GDP
GNP
HDI
(a combo of education level, GDP per capita, and life expectancy)
Gini-coefficient
(0=equally shared)
Social indicators
Services (e.g. healthcare)
Urbanisation
Food and nutrition
Educaiton and literacy - percentage of people over 15 yrs who can read
Demographic indicators (think of "rates" from last year)
Birth rate
Life expectancy
Infant mortality rate - the number of babies per 1000 live births that die in the first year of life
Death rate
Fertility rate
Pop. growth rate