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Discuss the relevance of Von Thünen’s model on agricultural location in the contemporary context. To what extent has globalisation diluted the spatial logic of agricultural land use proposed by Von Thünen?

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Johann Heinrich von Thünen's Isolated State (1826) — distilled from forty years of cost accounting on his own Mecklenburg estate — was the first systematic attempt to explain the spatial organisation of agriculture in terms of market proximity, transport cost and economic rent. The honest verdict on its contemporary standing is that the rings have…

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  • Introduction: The Ring Map versus the Rent Gradient
  • 1. The Model in Brief: What Von Thünen Actually Proposed
  • 2. The Contemporary Relevance of the Model
  • A. Understanding Agricultural Land-Use Patterns
  • B. Explaining Patterns of Agricultural Intensity
  • C. Peri-Urban Agriculture Still Follows Thünen's Logic
  • …and 11 more sections, with a conclusion

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