2020/08/13 by Ronald V. Kalafsky, Mikhail Samarin · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Social Sciences · #Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research #Regional Development and Policy #Rural development and sustainability
paper · doi:10.1080/00221341.2020.1804604
crossref issued 2020/08/13 · crossref published 2020/08/13 · crossref published-online 2020/08/13 · openalex publication_date 2020/08/13 · crossref created 2020/08/13 · crossref published-print 2020/09/02 · crossref deposited 2021/05/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref indexed 2026/07/28 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Regional agglomerations of industry have been a focus of economic geography research, especially in terms of how these clusters form and remain successful. Such a core topic should be explored in economic geography coursework. Economic geography education itself has been the topic of debate, particularly in terms of how to make important concepts relevant to students, especially those with little or no exposure to geography. This paper presents results from a project in an upper-level, undergraduate geography course that centered on an assessment of Portuguese clusters and their export potential, employed to explore and integrate core concepts in economic geography.