Objectives and competences
Students:
- getting informed about human economic activity as an element of transforming the geographic space, its impact on physiognomic, functional and integral change of space,
- insight in development and structural specificity of individual economic sectors,
- comprehension of the competitive economic model together with assuring sustainable economic development of individual regions, social cohesion and quality of the environment is given a great emphasis,
- develop critical relationship towards economic processes and geographical factors that shape
global economy and deepen the differences between the developed and the undeveloped regions of the world.
Content (Syllabus outline)
1. Theories and methods of economic geography.
2. The impact of socio-economic changes to the geographic territory in different historic periods.
3. Global economic development. Analysis of development indicators for individual regions of the world. Urban agglomerations as poles of economic development. Global economic integrations.
4. Primary economic activities: Agrarian revolutions. Forms of agrarian production and global agriculture markets and social-ownership relations. Characteristics of modern agriculture in developed parts of the world and common agricultural policy of the EU. Fishing and processing of fish. Forest management.
5. Secondary economic activities: process of industrialisation, industrial planning factors (old vs. new), the structure of the industry, deindustrialisation process, the importance of new industries and the most developed regions of the world.
6. Tertiary and quaternary sector: tertiarization and quaternarization of the economy, the significance of trade, tourism and transport; R&D, innovation, technologic development, high added value, educating work force for the purposes of common market (the society of knowledge), technology parks, incubators, development of informational and infrastructure networks.
7. Energy sources: fossil, alternative.
8. Geographers’ views of sustainable economic growth, social cohesion and assurance of the quality of the environment.
Learning and teaching methods
- lectures,
- AV presentations,
- case studies discussions,
- field work.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and understanding:
Stunent:
- comprehension of the competitive economic mode
with assurance of sustainable economic development of individual regions, social cohesion and preservation of the environment,
- comprehension of the importance of innovative regions’ strategies for social development.
Transferable/Key Skills and other attributes:
- the analysis of national economic priorities for
achieving sustainable regional economic
development in the Republic of Slovenia
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
- the analysis of national economic priorities for
achieving sustainable regional economic
development in the Republic of Slovenia.
Readings
Yuko A., Murphy J. T., Hanson S. (2010). Key Concepts in Economic Geography. London: SAGE.
Leyshon A., Lee, R., McDowell, L., Sunley, P. (eds.) (2011). The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography, SAGE Publications Ltd. 184860114X, 9781848601147 (428 pages).
Rifkin J. (2013). The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World, Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Rifkin J. (2019). The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth, St. Martin’s Press.
Sachs J.D. (2020). The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions, Columbia University Press.
Ivajnšič, D. (2020): Kvantitativne metode v geografiji : zbirka vaj z rešitvami. Maribor: Filozofska fakulteta, Fakulteta za naravoslovje in matematiko, 2020. 1 spletni vir, ilustr. http://185.164.136.112:21201/ivajnsicStudentskaGradiva/kvantitativneMetodeVGeografiji/. [COBISS.SI-ID 46362115
Vsako študijsko leto bo seznam študijske literature posodobljen./ The list of study literature will be updated each school year.
Additional information on implementation and assessment - written seminary work, - 10 %
- tutorials in the MS Excel and GIS environments - 30 %
- written examination. - 60 %
