- Docente: Marzia Marchi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-GGR/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Geography and Territorial Processes (cod. 0971)
Learning outcomes
The course provides the main theoretical reference for the analysis of geo-economic space and its transformations in the context of globalization. At the end of the course the student will know and be able to analyze, at different geographical scales, relationships between economic decisions and the effects on land management.
Course contents
Economic relations in the contemporary world
- Economic Geography as important field of Human geography
-Different sectors of economic activity: agricultur, industry, services, and their patterns of localisation
-Geography and Development.
-Economic globalization: processes and spaces.
- Economic Changes in Europe and in developed countries.
- New Emerging countries: Cina, India , Brasile.
-Global economy and geopolitics of a multipolar world: rescaling of power decisions ( at local, national, international and supranational level).
-Growing importance of cities and regions.-New economic relations between developing countries.
Readings/Bibliography
Students who attend to the lessons will received bibliographic integrations , during the course.
Students who do not attend must study:
1- One Manual chosen between the followings:
- G.Dematteis, C. Lanza, F. Nano,A. Vanolo, Geografia dell'economia mondiale, UTET, Torino 2010
-E. Bignante, F. Celata, A. Vanolo, Geografie dello sviluppo. Una prospettiva critica e globale, UTET, Torino, 2014
2-One book chosen between the followings:
-Calchi Novati G.P. ( a cura di), L'alternativa Sud-Sud, chi perde e chi vince: economia, politica, modelli culturali, Carocci, Roma 2011( limitatamente alle pp. 1-138 e 227-237).
-Calabrò A., Calabrò C.,Bandeirantes: il Brasile alla conquista dell'economia mondiale, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2011
- Cucino D, Tra poco la Cina. Gli equilibri del mondo prossimo venturo, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2012
- A. Rondinone, India: una geografia politica, Carocci, Roma, 2008 + A. Rondinone, Donne mancanti, un'analisi geografica del disequilibrio di genere in India, Firenze Univ. Press, Firenze, 2003 .
3-The articles: M.Marchi, Geografie del cibo in Emilia Romagna.Culture alimentari e prodotti tipici, 2015;M.Marchi, Declino e rigenerazione urbana in Europa , i casi di Glasgow e Lipsia, 2012 e La Cina e l'Asia sud-orientale: relazioni economiche e geopolitiche, 2013, presents in Teaching materials at web site Alma DL Campus.
Teaching methods
Maps, images and geographical models will help the lectures
Assessment methods
During the lectures, individual presentation of specific aspects
of some countries can be required.
During the oral examination, it will assess the ability of the students to expose the general aspects of various themes, and the necessary examples.
Teaching tools
Office hours
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