Globalisation

The movement of goods, people and information between places.

The modification of a technology, product or idea from elsewhere to suit local conditions.

The extent a location, good, service or information is available to as many people as possible.

Social and economic inequalities across space e.g. unequal access

A corporation that owns or controls production of goods/services in more than one country.

The concentration of an activity in fewer locations, and often in larger settlements.

The movement of wealth, power and influence from one major part of the world to another.

People who see themselves as having an identity beyond the country they live in.

The development of global economic and political systems and world views.

The time, effort and money to move goods, people or information from one location to another.

The spread of technologies, products and ideas from their points of origin to other areas.

Changes in the location and distribution due to improvements in transport and communications.

The part of a region, country or the world in which wealth, power and profits are concentrated.

The places that a town dweller would normally visit in a day.

Areas of a region that lack wealth and power, from which profits are transferred to the ‘core’.

The process places become closer as the time taken to travel between them decreases.

An ability or capacity of something to be maintained or to sustain itself.

The benefit of a place being more suitable for the production of a particular good or service.