Write briefly about the subject matter of the important branch of economics geography
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Explanation:
The Scope
The scope, ambit or area of the economic geography is quite vast both in the temporal and the spatial terms, besides the applicability. The Universal Integrated Cubical Temporal - Spatial - Applicability Scope model of the Scope illustrates it aptly. The given cube can easily be sliced into 90 pieces (3 Temporal faces x 6 Spatial faces x 5 Applicability faces). Each slice represents one face each of the Temporal - Spatial - Applicability Scope. Thus, we may elaborate the scope of the subject in 90 different ways.
For example, let us cut the slice with 3 following faces: the Future, the Philosophical and the Asthenospheric. This slice means that the economic geography can be studied from the point of view of the philosophical questions related to the use of the Asthenospheric resources at any given point of time in the future.
Although Hartshorne and Alexander opine that "the geographer is concerned primarily with variations from place to place rather than from time to time" yet a geographer can't escape studying the temporal aspects, too in terms of studying the varied geographical patterns of the phenomena prevailing at any given point of the time on the Earth.
A complete and detailed exposition of all the above mentioned 90 integrated slices is beyond the scope of this article. So, I have attempted the following brief description of the various facets of the scope of this challenging dynamic subject:
(i) The Temporal Aspect/Scope:
With the emphasis on the current contemporary situation, it includes in its ambit the scope of going back into the times, since the ills of many countries today have their roots in the past geographical economic spatial patterns like during the great age of discovery, 30 million young people aged 15-35 years were removed from the Africa during the Slave Trade Era which depleted the human resources of that continent.
It caused a lack of the significant economic development in the Africa whereas the slave trading nations like the U.K., Spain, etc., flourished and built up the enormous monetary and capital assets which helped them later to kick start and sustain economic development in their own countries.
This led to the spatial variation in the economic development in that bygone era. But, its repercussions are still felt in the Africa where the economic development has quite been low due to the bequeathing of no significant economic development by their preceding generations.
Thus, one may divide temporal aspect into following broad categories:
1. Ancient
2. Medieval
3. Great Age of discovery
4. 19th century
5. 20thcentury
6. Contemporary
7. Recent
8. Present
(ii) The Spatial Aspect/Scope:
The economic geography has enormous spatial scope which includes the following aspects/points:
1. The Vertical:
It includes the spatial locations right from the ocean bed to the mountain top and the related economic phenomena. It includes the aspects like the geocentric, the asthenospheric, the lithospheric, the atmospheric and the galactic. For example, there is a lot of the extra-terrestrial scope.
With the opening up of the extra-terrestrial scope, the economic geography shall have to take into the consideration the availability of the economic activities/possibilities in the outer space like the Moon, the Mars, etc.
The experiments carried out to produce the special kinds of the minerals aboard the spacecrafts fall within the spatial scope of the economic geography.
2. The Horizontal:
It includes the study of the econo-geographic aspects in the horizontal direction in terms of the phenomena like the lithosphere, the hydrosphere and the biosphere, etc.
(a) The Continental Scope:
It includes the studies of all the continents/islands in the economic terms and their interactions.
(b) The Hemispheric Scope:
The economic geography may be studied in terms of the eastern, the western, the northern and the southern hemispheres.
(c) The Global Scope:
It has the global scope because of the variations in the level and the interdependencies that exist in the international economic development. The whole Earth has become a global system with the shrinking economic distance. So much that even a person in the most remote geographical/economic areas of the world now participates in an economic system that is less the local and the regional and more the national and the international in the scope.
(iii) The Applicability scope:
the economic geography. Further, we have the scope for studying the various theories used in the economic
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