UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN GEOGRAPHY
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

Semester V - Paper X (b) - Industrial Geography

Duration: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

(90 hrs)

PAPER X (b) - INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY

Unit I

Introduction - Scope and Content - Minerals - Classification - Distribution of Iron, Copper, Bauxite, Alloys

Unit II

Energy resources - conventional and non-conventional - Distribution of coal, petroleum, and natural gas - Electricity : Hydel and thermal - Atomic energy, Solar energy, tidal energy and geothermal energy.

Unit III

Agro-base and Mineral based industries - Factors of Location of Industries -. Weber's theory of industrial location - world distribution of major industries- iron and steal - ship building - auto mobile. Cotton textile industry.

Unit IV

Transportation - significance, modes - surface, water transport - their characteristic, advantages and disadvantages - major transport routes - ports and harbours.

Unit V

Trade - significane - kinds of trade - international trade: pattern, volume and composition; trade policies - reciprocal tracties, pacts - trade between the developed and developing countries - foreign trade of India.

Reference

1. Alexander J.W. (1979). Economic Geography, Printice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
2. Goh Cheng Leong (1997). "Human and economic geography", Oxford University Press, New York.
3. Thoman, R.S., Conkling E.C. and Yeates, M.H. (1968). Geography of Economic Activity, McGraw Hill Book Company, 1968.
4. Miller, E. (1962) Geography of Manufacturing Printice Hall - Englewood Cliff, New Jersey
5. Gunnar Alexandersson (1967). "Geography of Manufacturing, Prentice Hall, New Jersey
6. Truman, A. Harishorn, John W. Alexander (2000) " Economic Geography", Prentice Hall of India Ltd., New Delhi.