World economic geography
Secondary activities and industrial regions
Concepts to cover
- Modern large-scale manufacturing: specialisation, mechanisation, technology, organisation, access to market, labour, energy, transport
- Industries by size, inputs (agro, mineral, chemical, forest, animal based), output (basic, consumer), ownership (public, private, joint)
- Footloose industries, high-technology industry and technopoles
- Industrial regions of the world: north-east USA and Great Lakes, western Europe (Ruhr, Midlands), Japan, eastern China, Russia
- Location of iron and steel, cotton textile and petroleum refining industries worldwide