| environ. |
economic geography The geography of people making a living, dealing with the spatial patterns of production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. The development of economic geography over the past three decades has witnessed the substitution of analysis for description, leading to an identification of the factors and an understanding of the processes affecting the spatial differentiation of economic activities over the earth's surface (关于人类谋生，生产、分配和消耗商品和服务的空间型态的地理学。 三十年来，经济地理学的发展见证了描述分析法的更替，导向因素的判定及影响地表经济活动的空间差异性过程的了解。) |
