Encyclopedia of Geography Terms, Themes, and Concepts
significant occupation. Boundaries that are formed simultaneously with the pro- cess of the development of the human landscape a ...
break-of-bulk point, because many commodities delivered to such locations are transported in bulk and often must be processed or ...
for reasons of security, convenience, environmental preservation, or for aesthetic purposes. Buffer zones are increasingly used ...
generated by industrial activity. Another type of buffer zone used in urban plan- ning is a green belt, which is typicallya circ ...
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C Capital Leakage Capital leakage, sometimes referred to ascapital flight,occurs when wealth, gen- erally in the form of investm ...
The effects of capital leakage are magnified in developing economies that lack economic diversity (as many do), and that are dep ...
the Green Revolution, as yields per acre in some areas increased by a factor of three. In some areas of south Asia yields for wh ...
Babylonians, for example, made maps of their cities and, like a number of early civilizations, also studied the stars. Astronomi ...
latitude and longitude, the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) system, and other grid patterns used today. Religion often motiv ...
change. Maps were vital instruments in determiningboundariesbetween new col- onies and countries, in displaying and tracking dem ...
An early map showing the west coast of Africa by the Portuguese cartographer Fernao Vaz Dourado. The map was produced in 1571, a ...
map with irrelevant detail. Second, the cartographer mustclassifythe data, espe- cially if a thematic map is the goal (see theMa ...
symbology, or other cartographic characteristics. The increasing application of GIS technology has led to a parallel expansion a ...
cost between similar types of goods is the additional transport cost associated with traveling a greater distance to obtain the ...
The exact spatial configuration of the hierarchical structure of central places and their hinterlands may be modified by applyin ...
desire to gain a greater share of the oil and gas deposits in the North Sea, located off Scotland’s east coast. Even a single po ...
two sovereign states, and the accompanying forced migrations across a newly established border that had never previously existed ...
shaping the political geography of many world regions, and much work remains to be done in coming to a full understanding of the ...
around the world, including the Strait of Gibraltar, the Turkish Straits, and the Strait of Malacca. Waterways built by humans c ...
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