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From the local to the global perspective, economic activity is unevenly distributed. Economic geography is concerned with describing, understanding, explaining, and influencing economic territorial patterns and processes. This course overviews economic geography approaches and key concepts. Moving from the local/regional level to the global, main conceptual ideas on the spatial development of industries and of regions at various scales are discussed. This is done through the lens of main actors: firms/entrepreneurs, labor, and institutions. Spatial economy involves a wider societal context surrounding economic processes: socio-cultural, institutional, and relational network patterns and characteristics. The course is also an introduction to geography as a wider discipline, and pays attention to the economic landscape of the Netherlands. Course includes real world cases, tutorials, and assignments, and participants actively carry out project assignments that are not only literature based but also include a fieldtrip and fieldwork.
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The undergraduate research program places students in research opportunites to conduct indpendent research under the supervision of a Chinese University of Hong Kong faculty. Students are expected to spend approximately 15 to 20 hours per week in independent research as well as attend lectures and labs.
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The Earth is unique in our solar-system by being both geologically active and hosting a myriad of life. This module introduces the study of Planet Earth, from planetary formation to the present-day processes that control our climate. The course covers topics including the dawn of the solar system, the dynamic nature of the solid Earth, and the surface processes that shape the planet. We introduce oceanography, atmospheric science and the cryosphere to understand how climate has and will continue to change with time. Fieldwork will be introduced as two half-day excursions and you will gain experience critically assessing scientific data, working in groups, and giving oral and written presentations.
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Political geography studies the links between power and space. This course focuses on the role of territorial states in our world. The relationship between states and their territories constantly changes but remains important to understanding the geopolitical changes related to different conceptualizations of what a nation-state is. This course considers questions such as how states control their territories and how the political order of different geographical areas is organized. It also analyzes the links between the political organization of these territories and the way their societies and economies change. The course provides an overview of contemporary political geography, its background as a sub-discipline, its main subjects, concepts, and theoretical underpinnings, as well as considers a selection of ongoing debates on issues where power and space are at stake. Some major themes covered in the course include the nature and formation of states and the global state system, the role of nationalism and territorial identities, how and why political systems change over time and how this relates to dynamics in other fields, the role of geographical scale levels in politics and how and why political systems vary between different parts of the world. While different scale levels are discussed, the emphasis is on the macro-level of the transforming nation-state, their geopolitical relations, and how citizens react and relate to these political structures.
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This course is an introduction to the theoretical and practical functioning of urban real estate markets using concepts from urban economics, finance, and real estate economics. A major component of the course is the case study in which students value a mixed-use commercial real estate property using the knowledge and techniques they have learned.
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This course examines the main processes that combine to influence the development of Earth’s surface and the formation of and changes to landscapes. The origins and development of landforms, particularly in the humid tropics, are explored, as are the characteristics, functioning, dynamics and interactions within and between major associated ecosystems. Human-induced landform and ecosystem modifications are also considered.
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The focus of the course is on the relations between terrestrial ecosystems and global climate systems. Seen in a historical and present perspective as well as on a temporal and spatial scale, the interactions between climate and ecosystem are put in perspective of the ongoing and future climate change. Further, the course explain how models and data bases are used to develop future climate scenarios and reconstruction of previous climate conditions, as well as the anthropogenic role in the present changes in climate.
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