Industrial Geography

Paper Code: 
Geo-323 A.
Credits: 
5
Contact Hours: 
75.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
15.00
Unit I: 

Nature Scope and New trends in Industrial Geography, Locational factors in manufacturing, concept of optimum locations, significance of cost and prices.

 

15.00
Unit II: 

Industrialization and its characteristics; The changing character of geographical concentration of Industries; Impact of technological changes; Recent trends of Industrialization.

15.00
Unit III: 

Theories of Industrial Location: the least cost school and the transport cost school, the market area school, the marginal area school, the behaviour school.

15.00
Unit IV: 

Major Industries: Multi-locational industries- Iron and steel, oil refining; Market oriented industries-furniture, textile industries; Footloose industries- automobile, commercial, ship building, IT; Raw material oriented industries- the paper and pulp industry, the cement industry.

15.00
Unit V: 

Industrial regions: Definition and delineation and Important Industrial regions of the world, important industrial regions of India.

The study of the following regions in detail:

  1. The Hoogly side industrial regions
  2. The Damoder valley industrial regions
  3. The Rhur basin industrial region
  4. The Great Lake industrial regions
  5. Red Basin

 

References: 
  1. Alexander, J.W. : Economic Geography (Prentice Hall, New York).
  2. Alexanderson Gnnar:Geography of Manufacturing(Englewood Cliffs,N.J.).
  3. Bengston.N.A.:Fundamentals of Economic Geography(Prentice Hall,New York).
  4. Besoh,H.:A Geography of world Economy(D.Van Nostrand).
  5. Britton,John.N.H.:Regional Analysis and Economic Geography(G.Bell and Sons,London).
  6. Estall,R.C. and Buchanan,R.O.:Industrial Activity and Economic Geography(Hutchinson and Co.,London).
  7. Ghose,B.C.:Industrial London.
  8. Hoover,E.M.: The Location of Economic Activity,(Mc Graw Hill Books Co.New York).
  9. Lloyd and Dicken:Location in Space:A theoritical Approach to Economic Geography.
  10. M.C. Cart and Lindberg Hodder and Lee Economic Geography:A preface to Economic Geography.
  11. Riley,R.C.:Industrial Geography,1973 Chalto and windus,London.
  12. Smith,D.E. Cox K.P.Man:Industrial Location.A Economic,Geographical Analysis Location and Behaviour-An Introduction to Human Geography.

 

Academic Year: 
2016-2017