Summary Edexcel notes on globalisation for the new A/AS level human geography
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Course
Unit 2 - Dynamic Places
Institution
PEARSON (PEARSON)
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How have developments in transport
What is globalisation? and trade accelerated globalisation
How do these factors connect people a
• Describe ways in which people and places are now more since 20th century?
• Money – range of businesses buy + sel
connected than they used to be • Allowed TNCs to establish ‘a spatial
currencies to make money
• ‘sitting in your living room in Estonia while division of labour’ i.e. locate in areas
communicating with a friend in Zimbabwe. Or it might be offering cheap sites of production
• Communities – raw materials = fossil f
symbolised by eating an Ecuadorian banana in the EU’ – where wages were lower + transport flows of goods multiplied in recent year
World Bank cost reduced cost china + low waged economies i.e. B
Why did it happen? • Information – internet = communicati
• Internationalism – international trade tripled 1870 -1913 bought – social network – information s
dominated by: Britain, France, Germany and USA farms’ i.e. Microsof
• Global connection through: Trade: 1492 Columbus • Tourists – air passengers = holiday mak
have cheaper holidays to farer places– c
reached America – Colonialism : GB controlled ¼ of
spender on international travel
world by end of 19th C – Co-operation: since WW1
• Migrants – border controls + immigrati
when EU + other international organisations were set up
EQ1: What are the causes – gov all for trade but resist global flow
of globalisation and why
Interrelationship between transport and trade
has it accelerated in Important transport Innovations
Transport
• Communication + transport tech = improving for years
recent years? • Steam Power – makes trains + boats g
1800s for faster movement of goods
each new break through helps trade grow • Railways – global expansion 1800s = Tr
• Technological process brings unexpected changes to ways 9,000km
companies operate • Jet travel – 1960s Boeing 747 aircraf –
Trade further distances – international travel +
• Capitalist economies seeking to increase profits – one + low cost
way involves research into transport tech to help build Improvements in transport by globalisation: EasyJet • Container ships – efficient transportin
new global markets • Most Europe’s major cities connected via EasyJet’s cheap flights
1950s – easy and quick
• Economic needs drive some technological changes when • Inaugural flights from London + Luton to Edinburgh + Glasgow
• Time – space compression – low travel
companies foster innovation supported by slogan ‘making flying as affordable as a pair of
transported goods big – everything getti
jeans - £29 one way’
• 1995 only 30,000 passengers 2014 increased to 65,000,000
• At the start only had 2 aircrafs 2014 it owned 200
• Increased globalisation as people could fly for cheap prices
spreading music, food + culture – companies increased profits
becoming well-known + popular
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