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Three sectors according to Fourastié Clark's sector model This figure illustrates the percentages of a country's economy made up by different sector. The figure illustrates that countries with higher levels of socio-economic development tend to have less of their economy made up of primary and secondary sectors and more emphasis in tertiary sectors.
James E. Vance Jr. (1925–1999) was an American geographer known for his contributions in historical, urban and transportation geography. His approach developed emphasized studies related to transportation and settlement relationships as well as evolution of city systems.
Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography were produced by the Study Group in Quantitative Methods of the Institute of British Geographers. [3] [5] Each CATMOG publication was written on an individual topic in geography rather than a series of broad topics like traditional textbooks and ranged between 40 and 70 pages.
One of his classes to become a teacher was in geography. Having found his calling and his discipline, he sought study advice from Gilbert F. White at the University of Chicago. White gave him some key texts to read, Kates returned to discuss them, White recognized his abilities and steered him through an MA and eventually a PhD in Geography (1962).
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Gordon Leslie Clark, [1] FBA FAcSS (born September 10, 1950) [4] is an Australian economic geographer, academic, and consultant.He is former Executive Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford (2013-2018) [5] [6] with cross appointments in the Saïd Business School and the School of Geography and the Environment. [7]
He taught geography at Yale (1907–1915) and from 1917 was a research associate there, devoting his time chiefly to climatic and anthropogeographic studies. He was the 1916 recipient of the Elisha Kent Kane Gold Medal from the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. In 1909, Huntington led the Yale Expedition to Palestine. It was his mission to ...
Clark then returned to the US to take up an assistant professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received tenure in Geography and Planning but resigned in 1970 to move to the Geography Department at UCLA, where he taught and conducted research for four decades. In 2010, he became a Distinguished Research Professor (Emeritus) at ...