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spatial economic development — English
The growth and evolution of the economic activities within an area or region and among areas and regions (see “spatial economy”, “economical development” and “spatial economy”). As the world economy is globalising, spatial interaction among economic entities is getting more intricate and involved. Economic geographers study these spatial patterns (see “spatial pattern”) to establish why certain areas and activities are growing while others are shrinking. These patterns are, of course, not fixed and they change over time. The spatial patterns disclose a lot of information about the cause and effects of the developments. In certain areas or regions economic activity is blossoming, while it is shrinking is others. These are the things that economic geographers study. Often a simple map of the spatial interactions between areas and some economical information could explain the entire development or lack of it. Of course, other variables such as political stability and international agreements play important roles in the development of economic interaction, but there might be a far more involved cause-effect (or cause-response) relationship, and this often has a political nature. Political and economic geography cannot really be separated and have to be considered as one complex phenomenon.
