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7 How Is the Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas Transforming the World?
7 How Is the Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas Transforming the World?
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. If ICT worldwide, is premised upon various forms of mobil- has rendered distance irrelevant, as suggested by the ity, including the migration of labor from low-wage death-of-distance hypothesis, then people and busito high-wage places, the daily travel of workers from nesses should have little reason to incur the time and their homes to workplaces, the movement of materials money costs involved in moving themselves or goods to worksites, and the distribution of finished products over increasingly greater distances.
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since 1970 in the United States closely tracks increasing incomes but well exceeds population gains. In the United States, passenger VMT in 2005 was more than 2.5 times VMT in 1970 whereas population grew by a factor of only 1.5.
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Relatively inexpensive and dependable sions stemming from energy use. The reliance of the mobility from the local to the global scales has enabled transportation sector on petroleum and its significant this form of spatial organization to become truly global, contribution to carbon emissions places mobility on with high levels of specialization twinned with longgeopolitical and climate change agendas.
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Despite initial predictions ing energy consumption, managing urban congestion, that virtual interactions via ICT would eliminate or and cutting greenhouse gases. Schwanen and Kwan substantially reduce the need for movement, research (2008)
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Such how do changing energy costs influence the analyses are not likely to be straightforward, however, movement of people and commodities and the because the parameters of the relationships involved geographical organization of the landscape? are dynamic and place specific, and considerable uncer The global economy is dependent on cheap, abun- tainty surrounds people's response to increasing energy dant energy.
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Within the United tive to place differences can also demonstrate the range States, for example, workers have voiced concern that of likely impacts of energy price increases on people's the presence of immigrants depresses wages and takes residential choices and daily travel patterns. jobs away from the U.S.-born labor force.
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The ethnic composition of a migrant's characteristics of the local residential environment receiving community affects not only identity but also matter most to migrant outcomes and to the receiving the degree of segregation among different groups and community as a whole. differences in income levels.
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the bridge -- averaged 330 miles. Impedances increased total exports and 40 percent of all containerized cargo as well, indicating that the selected detour routes were import traffic, a trade volume equal to $256 billion in not ideal.
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