ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY (Theory)

Paper Code: 
24DGEO703
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The students will appreciate the significance of social, cultural and political factors as central to the functioning of economies; and that the economic processes need to be analyzed in social, cultural and political contexts. The students will realize the relevance of economic geography for analyzing contemporary societies and economies.

Course Outcomes: 
CO90: Assess the different economic processes in geography prevailed over the earth surface and the importance of the resources and their regional distribution in different parts of the world, specifically in India.
CO91: Enhance the knowledge about primary production and distribution all over the world.
CO92: Explore the various renewable and non renewable resources.
CO93: Acquire the knowledge about secondary production and distribution all over the world.
CO94: Identify the different trade practices and their related organizations.
CO95: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.
12.00
Meaning and definition of economic geography
  • Sectors of economy: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary, Quinary activities
  • Natural Resources: Definition, Classification, Distribution, utilization and conservation of Soil, Fisheries and Water (River).
12.00
Unit II: 
Geography of Primary Production
 
• Agricultural regions
• Classification of World Agricultural types according to Whittelsey
• World distribution, Production and uses of Minerals
• Metallic: Iron, Aluminum, Copper, Mica and Lead
• Non- Metallic: Bauxite, Graphite and Gypsum
12.00
Unit III: 
Energy Resources
• Conventional energy resources: distribution and utilization of coal, petroleum and natural gas.
• Non-Conventional sources of energy: Distribution and Prospects of Hydro-electricity, Wind
and Solar Energy
12.00
Unit IV: 
Secondary Production
 
  • Iron and Steel Industries
  • Cotton Textile industries
  • Introduction to the industrial regions of U.S.A., Japan, Brazil, China and India
12.00
Unit V: 
International Trade Agreements and Policies:
 
  • World Trade Organisation (WTO),
  • European Union (EU),
  • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),
  • South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA),
  • South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC),
  • G20
Essential Readings: 
  1. Alexander, John W., Economic Geography, Prentice Hall; 2nd Revised edition. (1 February 1979)
  2. Maurya. S.D, Human & Economic Geography, Pravalika Publications, Allahabad, 2018.
  3. Janaki V.A, Economic Geography, Concept Publishing Co, New Delhi.
  4. A Study of Resources, The World Press Private Limited, Kolkata, 2002.
  5. Khanna K.K and Gupta V.I, Economic Geography and Commercial Geography, Published by Sultan Chand & Sons, New Delhi, 2019.

SUGGESTED READINGS

  1. Lee R. and Wills J. (eds.), 1997. Geography of Economics, Arnold, New York.
  2. Hanink D. M. 1997. Principles and Applications of Economic Geography, John Wiley, New York.
  3. Anderson William P. 2012. Economic Geography, Routledge, London.
References: 
Academic Year: 
2024-2025