UNIT # 1 : Overview of Comml.

Geography &Impact of geographical aspects

Let us define Commercial geography:Form of geography, concerned with production and supply of raw materials, includingagricultural output, and finished goods.Commercial Geography is now replaced with Economic status & progress.Commercial geography has assumed international importance as global market haspaved significant scope for a Commercial Geography.

What is Geography?

It is a comparatively small but lively and challenging discipline that provides approachsocietal problems and issues.Some of them are economic/social inequality; cost/quality of health care, foodsupply patterns &hunger, education and child labor; environmental/pollutionproblems; activities and behaviors of transnational corporations; and manymore.Economic & Business Geography: includes ways how individuals andenterprises organize their economic activities in space and extent to whichsociety recognizes socio-economic impacts of such activities.

What is Geography?

Economic & Business Geography: This emphases leads naturally to 3 differentperspectives of economic activities:1. Location/distribution of economic activities with questions of "place","locality", "site and situation" and land use;2. Spatial interaction/economic dependence & interdependence(exchange/trade/transportation/migration/information/capital flows,communication networks and economic geography of Internet);3. Economic change in a spatial context (regional growth/decline, technologicalinnovation, processes of structural change, regional economic developmentetc.).

What is Geography?In Geography increased emphasis is placed on societal/economic facets as:Communications-related transactions: from face-to-face or via paper-and-pen todigital/GIS/Internet based presentation and exchange