ASpatial Analysis Of The Dimensions Of Economic Health In The Southeastern United States And

Abstract:the Increasing Attention Given By Geographers To The Problems Of Poverty, Economic Health And Underdeveloped Areas Is AHealthy Sign That They Are Progressing With The Temporal Needs Of Today's SocietyThis Concern With Areal Differentiation In Economic Growth And Levels Of Economic Well Being Is Not ANew GeographyIt Is, Instead, AMore Specialized Topical Outlook On The Net Result Of Economic Activity As Viewed In ASpatial FrameworkThis Approach Attempts To Relate Regional Inequalities In Levels Of Living With Man's Economic Endeavours As They Are Tied To His Cultural, Technological And Resource Environment.the Trend To Look For Factors Other Than Resource Endowment Is Perhaps The Major Criterion Which Separates Present Geographical Research From Previous Regional Studies..ullman Has Pointed Out That Natural Resources And Cultural Differences Are Not Sufficient To Explain The Disparity In Economic GrowthDifferences In Social Conditions And Advances In Technology Often Provide Additional Information In Explaining The Areal Variation In ProsperityThe Inclusion Of Additional Variables To Explain This Differential In Economic Growth Has Led To The Use Of Multivariate Statistical Techniques As Analytical ToolsThe Usefulness Of These Techniques Lies In Their Applicability In The Analysis Of Large Numbers Of Indices, In Their Isolation Of Significant Variables And In The Testing Of Hypotheses.these Are Important Contributions When Dealing With Interrelated Data.the Realization By Social Scientists That The Distribution Of Wealth And Poverty Is Uneven Has Focused Their Attention On The Need For More Regional StudiesNational And State Data Often Tend To Hide Small Pockets Of High Deviation In Levels Of IncomeThis Has Led To Economic Regionalization Based On Counties, And, Where Possible, Smaller Units.spatial Interaction Is Another Geographic Concept Which Is Increasingly Being Realized As Playing An Important Role In Explaining The Difference In Levels Of Progress.this Concept Was Introduced By Ullman And Refined By Hagerstrand At Lund UniversityHagerstrand Used Simulation Models In An Attempt To Measure The Degree Of Resistance That Cultural And Physical Barriers Imposed Upon The Acceptance Of New Ideas Among Contiguous Areas In Sweden.hartshorne Points Out That The Comparison Of Economic Growth Among Underdeveloped Regions Should Be Relative Rather Than ConcreteADirect Comparison Between Two Culturally Different Regions May Not Sh
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