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Masters Programme In Economic And Industrial Geography

 

AGE 814

Locational Behaviour and Analysis

 

Course content (including topics)

Classical and neo-classical location theories with modern extensions.  Principles of economic regionalization and network analysis with emphasis on spatial implications of the economic development process.

AGE 815

Economic and Industrial Geography of Africa

 

Course content (including topics)

Review of the environmental base, the population factor, economic status and problems.  The spatial-structural aspects of contemporary agriculture and manufacturing; transportation; trade and development; regional co-operation and economic development; urban settlements and the process of urbanization; spatial inequalities and regional development, African in the world economy.

 

AGE 816

Methods and Techniques of Economic and Industrial Geography

 

Course content (including topics)

Complication, mapping and measurement of sets of observation; transformation and data combination techniques; measures of geographic patterns, a real distributions as surfaces and association between patterns; networks and movements; a real classification and regionalization. Techniques of measurement of a real associations and relationship in manufacturing. Economic base and trade flow analysis. Application of linear progamming and input-output analysis to problems of industrial location.

AGE 817

Spatial Perspectives of Development and Under Development

 

Course content (including topics)

Development as economic growth, modernization, distributive justice and socio-economic growth, modernization, distributive justice and socio-economic transformation.  Geographic space and development – development as spatial reorganization.  Causes of underdevelopment; some older views; “vicious circles circle” as causes; colonialism as a scapegoat, Marx on colonialism; the views of Locoste and Bobek; critique of the theories of imperialism and dependency.

AGE 818

Industrial Location and Regional Development

 

Course content (including topics)

Evaluation and application of the principles of industrial location to planning and implementation of industrial location and development. Case studies of industrial development planning of selected countries (developed and underdeveloped)

 

 

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