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Key Concepts
Urbanization
World Systems
External arenas
Plantations
Import substitution
Technological
improvements
and limits
Figure 2.8 Cotton plantation, Mississippi River
Environmental determinism
Third World
Neocolonialism
Commercial imperialism
Transnational corporations
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Globalization
Increasing interconnectedness of the world
Economic, environmental, political, cultural
Greater speed, larger scale, broader scope, and
greater complexity than in the past
Commodity chains
Increase in significance of place
Mobility of money, labor, products, and ideas
Globalization, (contd)
Globalization: Environment
Globalization: Health
Globalization, (contd)
Security
Risk society
Spatial Justice
Cultural Imperialism
Westernization
Jihad vs. McWorld
Future Geographies
End of Chapter 2