Geography of Surfing: Final Exam Review Stuart H. Sweeney Department of Geography University of California, Santa Barbara Winter 2007 Geography questions: • Where is it? • Why is it there? • What is it? • Are proximate things influencing it? • How long will it be there? • Is it impacting its environment or other things nearby? • Fundamental Themes A middle latitude cyclone 35 o N, 175 o W d ij Relative location?, characteristics?, processes? A point and place in time What is he holding and what does it represent? When and where is he? What happened to objects of that type? Price (P) Quantity (Q) D S Q* P* Production and consumption Economic organization of surfboard manufacturing Petroleum? Foam Blank (Polyurethane, Polystyrene) Laminating “Glue” (Polyester Resin, Epoxy) Laminating “Skin” (Fiberglass, Wood, Graphite) Silica “Shaper” “Glasser” fins artwork
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Geography of Surfing:Final Exam Review
Stuart H. SweeneyDepartment of GeographyUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Winter 2007
Geography questions:
• Where is it?
• Why is it there?
• What is it?
• Are proximate things influencing it?
• How long will it be there?
• Is it impacting its environment or other things nearby?
• Fundamental Themes
A middle latitude cyclone
35o N, 175oW
dij
Relative location?, characteristics?, processes?
A point and place in timeWhat is he holding and what does it represent?
When and where is he?
What happened to objects of that type?
Pric
e (P
)
Quantity (Q)
D
S
Q*
P*
Production and consumption Economic organization of surfboard manufacturing
Spatial organization of surfboard manufacturingPre-modern history: 1936 first commercial production of fiberglass, 1940 first commercial production of rigid polyurethane foam.
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Redondo Beach
Noll
Noll/E.T.
Clark
Laguna Niguel
Walker
Wilmington
Weber
Walker
Retail &garage
2005Black Monday
Santa Cruz
FrenchCobra
Thailand
China75,000 Surftech Boards
Spatial Economics: Global, Regional, and Local
• Spatial economics / Cross-scale interactions
• Global- international trade
- offshore production / outsourcing
• Regional- interregional variation within country
- variation in what?
• Local- intra-urban variation
- retailing, noxious industries (zoning)
Geography of Surfing: Mission
• Are you excited about learning at UCSB?
• Do you know more about Geography, as a field, than you did in week 1?
• When you surf, plan a surf trip, decide where to paddle-out, choose your next surfboard….
will you do that differently because of this course?
Spatial organization of surfboard manufacturingPre-modern history: 1936 first commercial production of fiberglass, 1940 first commercial production of rigid polyurethane foam.
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Redondo Beach
Noll
Noll/E.T.
Clark
Laguna Niguel
Walker
Wilmington
Weber
Walker
Retail &garage
2005Black Monday
Santa Cruz
FrenchCobra
Thailand
China75,000 Surftech Boards
Spatial organization of surfboard manufacturing
1960-1980sBlanks: Single technology, near monopoly, few production sites