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Weber and Industrial Location
TheoryIndustrial Activity and Geographic Location
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Economic Geography
• Economic geographers investigate the reasons behind the location of an economic activity
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Location Theory
• Attempts to explain the pattern of the location of an economic activity in terms of influential factors
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The Location Decision (1)
• Primary Industries– Because these deal with the
extraction of resources, primary industries must be located where the resources are
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The Location Decision (1)• Secondary Industries
– less dependent on resource location
– raw materials can be transported if profits outweigh the costs of transportation
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The Location Decision (2)
• Alfred Weber: 1868-1958
• German• The Von Thunen of
economic geography• Least Cost Theory
– Accounted for the location of a manufacturing plant in terms of the owner’s desire to maximize three costs
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The Location Decision (3)
Transportation (most important)moving raw materials to factory and
finished goods to marketLabor
High labor costs reduce margin of profit
current economic boom on Pacific rim
Agglomerationnumber of similar enterprises
clustered in the same areaShared talents, services and
facilitieswhen excessive, can lead to high
rents, rising wages, circulation problems
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Weber• Some argued that Weber’s
model did not adequately account for variations in costs over time– Substitution principle: when one
cost decreases can endure higher costs in another area (fixed vs variable costs)
– Model suggests that one particular site (point vs area) would be optimal but the business could flourish in more than one area
– Taxation policies are not accounted for by Weber
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Factors of Industrial Location (1)
–Transportation• Raw materials to factory and
finished products to market• steel plants along Atlantic seaboard
because iron shipped in from Venezuela
• Europe’s coal and iron ore regions– Iron smelters built near coal fields
• Japan’s colonial expansion into E Asia (China/Korea) due to raw materials
• European colonization for resources, periphery to core
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http://www.epa.gov/sectors/sectorinfo/sectorprofiles/ironsteel/map.html
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Piedmont: foot of the mountains; from Italian pied (foot) monte (hill)
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Factors of Industrial Location (1)
–Transportation• highly developed industrial areas are
places that are served most efficiently by transportation facilities
• alternative systems• container systems, break of bulk• for most goods, truck is cheaper
over shorter distances, railroads cheaper over medium distances, and ships cheapest over longest distances
• must consider loading/unloading, actual transportation (cost of transportation increases with distance at a decreasing rate), and weight and volume
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World’s largest container ship
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Intermodal Facility: Portland, Oregon
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Greenville?
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Factors of Industrial Location (2)
–Labor• a large, low-wage trainable
labor force will attract manufacturers
• Japan’s postwar success based on skills and low wages of workforce, low quality high quantity initially
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Factors of Industrial Location (2)
–Labor• China emerged with large labor
force in 80’s
• Taiwan and South Korea emerged to challenge Japan in mid ‘90’s due to cheaper labor
• Four Tigers today
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Greenville?
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Factors of Industrial Location (3)
–Infrastructure• transportation, telephone,
utilities, banks, postal, hotel
• China-inadequate local and regional infrastructure
• Vietnam-inadequate power, water, transportation
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Factors of Industrial Location (4)
–Energy• used to be much more
important than it is today• early British textile mills had to
locate near water power• rarely a problem today, except
industries needing a huge amount of energy--- metal processing and chemical industries may locate near hydropower (TVA or Pacific Northwest)
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Map showing location of chemical manufacturing facilities.
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Other Factors
• agglomeration• political stability• regional receptiveness to
investment• taxation policies• environmental conditions
(Hollywood)
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Silicon Valley
• High Tech Heaven, headquartered in San Jose California, 50 miles south of San Francisco
• Stanford University• Silicon is main ingredient in computer
chip making– 2nd most abundant element in Earth’s crust
(ubiquitous)
• IBM, Netscape, Apple, Yahoo!, Intel, Sony, Microsoft
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