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Course Catalog 01/02


Business Adm and Social Science

IES313 Social and Economic Geography 15.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
I

LANGUAGE:Swedish

EXAMINER
Håkan Appelblad Univ lekt


PREREQUISITES
None.

COURSE AIM
- To give a genaral picture of how man arranges parts of the earths surface, while organizing society and its different enterprises.
- To give an insight into the connection between the geographical environment and mans reshaping of society.
- To give a basic knowledge of geographical outlooks, concepts and theories.
- To provide knowledge about the course of events in regions that are of importance for development as well as how the state, through national and regional development planning, influences the regional development and ground utilization.


CONTENTS
Item 1
Introduction and population geography.

Item 2
Economic geography.

TEACHING


EXAMINATION
Written exams, assignments and seminars.
Grading system: Fail, Pass or Honours.

COURSE GRADE SCALE: U, G, VG

ITEMS/CREDITS

Required assignment 1.50ECTS
Written exam 6.00ECTS
Reuired assignment 1.50ECTS
Written exam 6.00ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE

Moment 1
Introduktion och befolkningsgeografi
Barrett, H.R.: Population Geography. Cenceptual Frameworks in Geography. Oliver & Boyd 1992. ISBN 0-05-004507-5.
Diercke Weltatlas: Westermanns förlag, senaste upplagan. ELLER
Gleerups stora skolatlas 1996 eller senare.
Findley, A. and Findley, A.: Population and development in the vorld. Routledge 1991. ISBN 0-415-06584-4.
Person, L O m fl: (red) 90-talets befolkningsfrågor. ERU 1991. Kompendium.
Sveriges Nationalatlas: Sveriges kartor. 1990 ISBN 91-87760-01-0.
Söderman, I.: Från lertavla till satelitbild. Uppsala 1990.
Östman, P.: Geografi som vetenskap. En introduktion. Liber 1986. ISBN 91-38-61471-5.

Moment 2
Ekonomisk geografi
Dicken, P & Lloyd, P.: Location in space. Theoretical Perspectives in Economic Geography. Harper Collin. 1990. ISBN 0-06-041677-7
Diercke Weltatlas: Westermanns förlag, senaste upplagan. ELLER Gleerups stora skolatlas 1996 eller senare.
Knox, P & Agnew, J.: The Geography of the World Economy. London 1998.
Lindgren, Mahieu, & Stjernström: Local or non-local? - Some notes on the Economic-Geographical impacts of large investments. Geografiska annaler 74 B,
No 3, pp 211-228, 1992. Kompendium.

REMARKS
Valid for the academic year 01/02.

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