Understanding Urbanization: Key Concepts and Processes

Understanding Urbanization

Immigration has been interpreted in three ways:

  • First, it is considered a demographic, by which a growing proportion of the population of an area is concentrated in urban areas as defined statistically. This concentration is largely migration from rural areas and the difference between birth and mortality rates.
  • The second interpretation relates urbanization to social and economic changes caused by capitalist industrialization. Structural urbanization is linked to industrialization
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Landslide Resource Exploitation: Ecosystems & Sustainability

Landslide Resource Exploitation

Ecosystems

Ecosystems are, in principle, autonomous dynamical systems, forming a natural community (biocenosis) and a physical environment (biotope), which interact with each other. Ecology is the science that studies ecosystems.

Exploitation and Sustainable Development

Overexploitation of natural resources occurs when these are exploited at a rate higher than their natural regeneration. Natural resources can be classified into renewable and partially renewable. Renewable

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Key Economic and Industrial Terms Explained

Key Economic and Industrial Terms

Agribusiness: Sector of economic activity that includes the various processes of transformation of agricultural products, irrespective of the industrial branch they fall under: food, textiles, energy, etc.

Multinational Company: A term used to refer to companies with factories in several countries. These factories are legally separate but linked to the decisions of the headquarters, which is located in another country. Eg. Ford.

ERDF (European Regional Development

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Human Development: Historical Eras and Economic Foundations

Prehistory: Dawn of Humanity

Prehistory encompasses the period from the appearance of humanity until the first written records. Knowledge of this era comes from human skeletal remains, discovered tools, remnants of housing, and artistic creations. Humans appeared approximately 2 million years ago and made crucial discoveries, notably controlling fire and domesticating animals.

Paleolithic Period: Nomadic Life

During the Paleolithic period, humans were nomadic. They lived near rivers, subsisting on

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Key Agricultural and Rural Development Terminology

Organic Agriculture

A farming system based on the optimal use of natural resources, avoiding synthetic chemicals or genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to produce organic food.

Extensive Agriculture

Characterized by the need to increase acreage to boost production, primarily using traditional methods. Key features include low yields, low capitalization, and reliance on traditional crops.

Extensive Livestock

Characterized by very long production cycles and the use of native breeds adapted to the local

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Urbanization in Antiquity, Medieval & Modern Eras

The Urbanization Process: A Historical Overview

De-urbanization process:

  • The conformation of the urban network in antiquity. It is a network of peripheral locations of towns like the Phoenician colonies. The Greeks created colonies along the Mediterranean coasts of Catalonia and Valencia. Small towns began to develop, fortified by the native Iberian population. The Punic presence and the long period of Romanization strengthened a well-connected urban system.
  • The Hispanic City. The Iberian Peninsula
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