ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

The course aims to provide students with the main conceptual and methodological tools in a geographical and territorial perspective. The objective of the course is to provide knowledge about the spatial and territorial organization of contemporary economy.

1) Knowledge and understanding
To acquire the basic concepts of economic geography and related reference terminology
To understand the main spatial and territorial dimensions of the action of firms and of the main political and economic organizations, both national and international.
To understand the main concepts and tools of territorial action in the field of development policies.

2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
To acquire the capability to use the basic concepts of economic geography and its language to interpret the evolution of contemporary geo-economic systems
To be able to use territorial action concepts and tools in the field of development policies to analyze current territorial policies in different geographical contexts (cities, regions, states, supranational organizations)

3) Ability to judge
To develop the capability to formulate and argue simple interpretative hypotheses regarding the evolution of possible geo-economic scenarios

4) Communication skills:
The student must be able to synthesize the acquired knowledge in an efficient and coherent way.

Students must have passed the exam of Economics
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The programme for students attending the class and not-attending ones is as follows:

The geo-economic space: territory, regions, networks
The world system.
Economy and natural environment: Sustainable development and green economy
Migration and population
The agricultural Spaces
Commodities & Energy
The evolution of Industrial Spaces
Transport and Communications
Tourism and regional development
City, urban development, territorial marketing
The economic development policies
Port Cities, seaports, and coastal-maritime industry
Geopolitical scenarios and changes: order and disorder in a multipolar world

For all students, attending and not-attending ones:
- G. Dematteis, C. Lanza, F. Nano, A. Vanolo, Geografia dell'economia mondiale, UTET, ultima edizione.
- I. Talia, V. Amato, Scenari e mutamenti geopolitici. Competizione ed egemonia nei grandi spazi, Bologna, Pàtron, 2015, capitoli 1-3 (pp. 9-59)
- The class slides that will be made available in the moodle platform before the end of the course.

In June and September's sections, exam are an oral exam, through google meet
The first question will deal with a subject proposed by the student

The course is organized with frontal-lectures. In each lesson the final part is destined for discussion with the students, according to modalities consistent with the number of the class.

Italian

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Cities, infrastructure and social capital" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development