- "Economic geography is the subfield of human geography which studies economic activity and factors affecting them."
The study of the spatial distribution of economic activity, including production, consumption, and trade.
Spatial Economic Analysis: The study of how economic activity is organized in space and how geography affects economic activity.
Industrial Location Theory: The study of how firms determine where to locate their industrial activities, and the factors that influence these decisions.
Regional Economic Development: The study of how economic growth and development are distributed across regions and how policies can promote regional development.
Trade and Globalization: The study of how international trade and globalization affects the distribution of economic activity across regions and how it shapes economic growth and development.
Urban and Regional Planning: The study of how government policies and planning can influence urban and regional economic development and the spatial distribution of economic activity.
Transportation and Infrastructure: The study of how transportation infrastructure and logistics affect economic activity, and the role of infrastructure development in promoting economic growth and regional development.
Energy and Resource Economics: The study of how resource availability, resource use, and the demand for energy drives regional economic development, and how environmental policies can influence the distribution of economic activity.
Geopolitics and Economic Geography: The study of how political geography, including international borders and alliances, shapes patterns of economic development and trade.
- "There are four branches of economic geography."
- "Economic geography takes a variety of approaches to many different topics..."
- "...including the location of industries..."
- "...economies of agglomeration (also known as 'linkages')..."
- "...transportation..."
- "...international trade..."
- "...development..."
- "...real estate..."
- "...gentrification..."
- "...ethnic economies..."
- "...gendered economies..."
- "...core-periphery theory..."
- "...the economics of urban form..."
- "...the relationship between the environment and the economy..."
- "...tying into a long history of geographers studying culture-environment interaction..."
- "...and globalization."
- "It can also be considered a subfield or method in economics."
- "Economic geography is the subfield of human geography..."
- "...which studies economic activity and factors affecting them."