Industrial Geography

Paper Code: 
GEO 323 A
Credits: 
5
Contact Hours: 
75.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
15.00

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

 

15.00
  • 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
  • The Transport cost School
  • The Market Area School
  • The Marginal Area School
  • The Behaviour School
15.00
Unit IV: 
Major Industries
  •  Multilocational 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

  • Industrial Regions: Definition and Delineation and Important industrial Regions of the World
  • Important Industrial regions of India.
  • The study of the following regions:
  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
Essential Readings: 
  1. Lloyd and Dicken:Location in Space:A theoritical Approach to Economic Geography.
  2. M.C. Cart and Lindberg Hodder and Lee Economic Geography:A preface to Economic Geography.
  3. Smith,D.E. Cox K.P.Man:Industrial Location.A Economic,Geographical Analysis Location and Behaviour-An Introduction to Human Geography.
  4. Riley,R.C.:Industrial Geography,1973 Chalto and windus,London.
  5. Alexanderson Gnnar:Geography of Manufacturing(Englewood Cliffs,N.J.).
  6. Alexander, J.W. : Economic Geography (Prentice Hall, New York).
  7. Bengston.N.A.:Fundamentals of Economic Geography(Prentice Hall,New York).
References: 
 
  1. Besoh,H.:A Geography of world Economy(D.Van Nostrand).
  2. Britton,John.N.H.:Regional Analysis and Economic Geography(G.Bell and Sons,London).
  3. Estall,R.C. and Buchanan,R.O.:Industrial Activity and Economic Geography(Hutchinson and Co.,London).
  4. Ghose,B.C.:Industrial London.
  5. Hoover,E.M.:The Location of Economic Activity,(Mc Graw Hill Books Co.New York).
Academic Year: 
2017-2018