Human Geography

Jerome D. FellmannArthur GetisJudith GetisJon C. Malinowski

Human GeographyChapter 10

Patterns of Development and Change

Development as a Cultural Variable

• Distinctions between National Groups

• Distinctions between International Groups

Dividing the Continuum: Definitions of Development

• Explanations of Underdevelopment

• The Core-Periphery Argument

Economic Measures of Development

• The Diffusion of Technology• The Complex of Development• Gross National Product and PPP

Per Capita• Energy Consumption Per Capita• Percentage of the Workforce

Engaged in Agriculture– Landlessness

Economic Measures of Development (cont.)

• Poverty, Calories, & Nutrition

• Composite Assessment of Economic Development

Elm Grove, Oklahoma, 1936Dorothea Lange, Farm Service AdministrationSource: Library of Congress

A Model for Economic Development

• Rostow– Traditional Societies– Preconditions for Takeoff– Takeoff– Drive to Maturity– Age of Mass Consumption– (Postindustrial)

Noneconomic Measures of Development

• Education• Public Services• Health

Aggregate Measures of Development

• Comparative Statistics• Individual and Collective Well-

Being• Physical Quality of Life Index

(PQLI)• Human Development Index (HDI)

The Role of Women

• Gender• Roles of Women in Different

Countries