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| GEOG2007-1 | Location of economic activities
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| Duration : | 30h Th, 2d FW, 15h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Jean‑Marie Halleux |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | The course is devoted to the location of the economic activities, as well of the secondary sector as of the tertiary sector. It approaches successively: the measure of spatial distributions, recent trends in location changes, various methods of analysis as well as the operational methods of location choices.
Concerning the field of services, the course deals more particularly with retailing, public services, tourism and services to firms. Combining theory and practices, the course seeks to deal with the location issue at different spatial levels (geopolitical entity, country, region, locality and site).
This teaching is consolidated by two days of fieldworks as well as by five sessions of workshops devoted to different methods of location analysis. |
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| Course objective : | The first aim of the course is to initiate the future geographers with the major principles and theories related with the issue of economic activity location (for both industries and services). The aim of the course is also to prepare the students to solve concrete location problems encountered as well by the companies as by the planners and the development agencies.
The course must allow the students to reframe the deep changes observed in the field of location since 1950, and this at different scales (from the global to the local): delocalisation, exurbanisation...
The course must also allow the students to reframe the policy debates in the field of economic activities: delocalisation, territorial dualisation (wining regions versus losing regions), industrial policy (poles of competitiveness, clusters...). |
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| Prerequisites : | 1. Geography concepts and methods as taught in the course: "Introduction à la géographie économique et sociale" (BAC 1) and in the course "Introduction à la géographie économique" (BAC 2).
2. Course "Economie politique générale" (J. Defourny) (BAC 2).
3. An open attitude towards social and economic problems. |
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| Workshops : | See below « Organisation » |
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| Organization : | - 10 sessions (3 hours) of theoretical lectures (5 on industry and 5 on services);
- 5 sessions (3 hours) of workshops devoted to different methods of location analysis;
- 2 days of fieldworks in the urban regions of Liege and Brussels. |
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| Written notes : | Two textbooks:
1. B. Mérenne-Schoumaker, La localisation des industries. Enjeux et dynamiques, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Didact Géographie, 2008.
2. B. Mérenne-Schoumaker, Géographie des services et des commerces, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Didact Géographie, 2008.
Slide presentations based on the textbooks.
A glossary and various illustrations. |
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| Assessment : | Oral exam (80% of the quotation) based on the slide presentations (DOC mentioned in the slide to be considered)
Practical exam (20% of the quotation) |
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| Contacts : | - Professor:
J.-M. Halleux
tél. : 04/366 53 27 - fax : 04/366 56 30
e-mail: Jean-Marie.Halleux@ulg.ac.be
- Assistant: G.Devillet, Institut de Géographie,
Sart Tilman, B11 - 4000 Liège
tél. : 04/366 53 19 - fax : 04/366 56 30
e-mail: G.Devillet@ulg.ac.be
- Secretary: C. Sarto
tél. : 04/366 56 23 - fax : 04/366 56 30
e-mail: C.Sarto@ulg.ac.be |
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| Remarks : | The first course will happen on Tuesday the 15th of September (Salle Sporck, Geography Department). |
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