“The End of Geography” - a philosophy that geography won't matter any more because technology bypasses actual location, although people still acknowledge boundaries and make areas., World cities - areas that have huge economic opportunities. They are cities who usually make the most money and have the most influential power over other cities., Vertical integration - when a business owns its supplier and or their distributors to be more a part of the supply chain process. The company has more control over the process and ends up expanding., Urbicide - The intentional destruction of a city; brought into use after a war in Bosnia., Sanitary landfill - An area of land where trash is deposited so that it can decompose., Resource crisis - A situation involving the scarcity of essential riches when a buyer demanded them, Remanufacturing - The reconstructing of a product to advance or improve quality., Point source pollution - A distinct cause of pollution in an area, Non-consumptive water usage - Water that is used for activities that don’t involve consumption., Acid Rain - rainfall that's made sufficiently acidic by atmospheric pollution that causes environmental harm., Special economic zones - areas within countries that use tax incentives and environmental regulations to bring external organisations for business and investments., Air pollution - a higher concentration of trace substances like carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, and solid particulates than in normal air. , Economic sectors - in modern economics, there are three main sectors of economic activity (and two subsectors of the third): primary, secondary, tertiary (quaternary, quinary), Energy resources - Using their environment to generate electricity., Maquiladoras - A factory in Mexico that takes advantage of Mexico's low labor cost, that was built by the US. ,

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