Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
4 credits
25.0 h + 25.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
De Keersmaecker Marie-Laurence; Thomas Isabelle;
Language
French
Prerequisites
The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Main themes
The first part of the course is devoted to the influence of various factors determining the location of the production activities: transportation costs, production organization, spatial competition, externalities. In the second part, we are interested in the economic operation of the regions, primarily the inter-industry trade, growth theories and the interregional exchanges The third part is devoted to the canonical model of Krugman of economic geography. A research task is requested from the students on the objectives, the operating mode and the assessment of the activity of some large world actors of the development policies.
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| 1 | 1. To understand the bases of the location theory of economic activities while insisting on the competitive framework in which they take place; 2. to understand the regional dynamics, in particular the factors influencing the concentration of activities and threatening the marginalization of areas |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Teaching materials
- matériel sur moodle
Faculty or entity
GEOG
