Ateneo - UPO

Themes of human economic, geography and regional.

The teaching material (slides end eventual additional material) provided in the web page at the URL: http://moodle.eco.unipmn.it/ .
The texts are:
Conti, Dematteis, Nano, Vanolo “Geografia dell’economia mondiale” UTET, Milano, 2022 (Capitoli: 1,3,4,5,6,7,9,11)
Gavinelli D., Bolocan Goldstein M., “Regioni e regionalizzazioni. Lo spazio-mondo in divenire”, Pearson, Milano,2022 (solo i capitoli: 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 14)
A text of your choice:
Garelli B., “La Cina di oggi in otto parole”, il Mulino, Milano, 2021
Lizza G., “Gli orizzonti della nuova geopolitica”, Utet, Milano, 2021
Scott j. A., “Città e regioni nel nuovo capitalismo. L’economia sociale delle metropoli”, Utet, il Mulino, 2008
Santolini F., “Profughi del clima. Chi sono, da dove vengono, dove andranno”, Soveria Manelli, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2019
Facchini D., Rondi L., Respinti. Le «sporche frontiere» d’Europa, dai Balcani al Mediterraneo”, Altra Economia-Le talpe, Milano, 2022.

The course aims to provide basic geographical knowledge, methodological and content-related, in preparation for the analysis and interpretation of spatial organization, as well as the conditions.
In particular, it provides the essential principles of the systemic approach and the main theoretical and practical criteria to analyse and represent the Earth surface - and the regions in which it is articulated - as a product of human activity.
The course also provides the basis to understand territorial organizations, at urban, regional and national levels, as well as the key interactions between the physical, social and economic environment, allowing interpreting geographic differentiation of the relationship between man and nature as an expression of different social relations. Finally, more case studies are presented.

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Lectures and seminars

Further information is available on the web page of the course at the URL of Department of Humanities.

The exam is oral (about twenty minutes), the questions aim to understand the basic concepts presented during the course and to know the student’s critical skills.

The course is divided in lessons of two hours, whose contents are:
The geo-economic space: territory, regions, networks
Different regional spaces
The world and the globalization
Economy and natural environment
Population, work, migrations, society, culture
Agricultural spaces
Mining and energy space
The industry
International trade
Cities
Economic development

The course provides the basic geographic knowledge to the analysis and interpretation of the political and economic territorial organization and to link of the relations between theoretical and practical criteria to analise the space. The course provides ability to understand the connections between the territorial organization (regional, national and international levels) and the social and economic environment. The inter-disciplinary skills concern to use the critical and methodological tools appropriate to the analysis of the texts considered.