Geography Case Studies
HIC Global City
Sydney, Australia (Pyramont, Parramatta and Cabramatta)
LIC Global City
Mumbai, India (Slum: Dharavi)
Urban and Rural recesses in the UK
Oxford, England
For Oxford: CBD=x, Inner urban area=y, Suburbs=z
x=Carfax | y=Cowley Road (multicultural) | z=Wolvercote (affluent
Garden City
Bicester
Greenbelt
Oxford
Sustainable Urban Environment
BedZED
Sustainable Rural environment
Cambourne, Cambridgeshire
Out of town shopping centre
Bluewater, Kent
Major Sporting Event - impacts
UK hosted 2015 Rugby World Cup
Leisure use on rural honeypots
Lake District, Northern England
Globalisation outside UK
India
Globalisation in the UK
UK
Consequences of uneven development
LIC: Bangladesh | MIC: India | HIC: UK
MNC
Nike in Vietnam
NIC
India and Bangladesh
Fairtrade
Kuapa Kokoo
Long term aid programme
COVAMS: Malawi, East Africa
Short term emergency aid
Cyclone Idai, West Africa
Seasonal weather, geology and human activity
December 2013 Storm Surge, Eastern England (North Sea coast)
Government and local authorities in developing Shoreline Management Plans
Borth, Ceredigion, Wales
Impacts of Climate Change on coastal communities
LIC: Maldives, Indian Ocean (SIDS) | HIC: Thames Flood Barrier, London UK
Describe and explain processes influence river flooding
Somerset Levels 2014
Extreme flash flood
Boscastle, Cornwall, August 2004
Consequences of flooding
Somerset Levels and Boscastle
Evaluate costs and benefits of hard/soft engineering
River Valency, Boscastle, Cornwall | River Severn, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Role of different stakeholder
Somerset Levels 2014
UKs regional climate variations
London, SE England and Oban, NW Scotland
Influence of global atmospheric circulation
Hadley, Ferreland Polar Cells
Distribution of the main climate regions of the world
Hot semi-arid climate and equatorial tropical climate
Explain how cells influence global climate
Hadley, Ferrel, and Polar Cells
Features of hot semi-arid grassland and TRF
Hot semi-arid grassland and TRF
High and low pressure systems
Low pressure: depression, High pressure: anticyclone
Distribution of hurricanes
Hurricanes: Atlantic Ocean, Eastern Pacific | Typhoons: Western Pacific Ocean | Cyclones: Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and Australia
Two contrasting extreme weather events located outside of the UK
Extreme low pressure: March 2019 Cyclone Idai | Extreme high pressure: 2015 Californian drought
Consequences of climate change
LIC: Maldives, Indian Ocean (SIDS) | HIC: Thames Flood Barrier, London, UK
Consequences of climate change for people and environments
Ecosystems in the Arctic: polar bears in Hudson Bay, Canada | Water supply and health: Australia or malaria risk in Africa
Global initiatives to reduce the impact of climate change
IPCC (Kyoto and Paris Agreement)
How local and UK national government attempting to reduce risk of climate change
UK
Describe characteristics of two contrasting biomes
Hot semi-arid grassland and TRF
Components in Hot semi-arid grassland and TRF
Hot semi-arid grassland: Serengeti and Ngorongoro (Tanzania) | TRF: Virunga (DRC) and Monteverde (Costa Rica)
Biodiversity hotspots
Andes, Madagascar etc.
Small scale ecosystem in the UK
Wetlands ecosystem: Attenborough Nature Reserve, Nottinghamshire
How have Hot semi-arid grasslands and TRFs been damaged by human activity
Hot semi-arid grassland: Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area (Tanzania) | TRF: Virunga NP (DRC) and Monteverde Cloud Forest (Costa Rica)
Management strategies for hot semi-arid grassland and TRFs
Hot semi-arid grassland: Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area (Tanzania) | TRF: Virunga NP (DRC) and Monteverde Cloud Forest (Costa Rica)
Concepts of water footprints and water security
Kano, Nigeria
Why water supply and demand change over time
Ghana
What happens when demand for water exceeds supply
Surface: Lake Chad, Central Africa | Groundwater: Denmark, NW Europe
What are the challenges of managing water supplies?
South Africa (fog/rainwater harvesting, Lesotho water transfer scheme)
Changing climatic patterns over the period of several years
Ghana, West Africa
Local level strategies to managing desertification (drip irrigation, magic stones and use of drought-tolerant crops)
Burkina Faso and Mali
International strategies to reduce desertified areas
Great Green Wall (Senegal, Niger etc.)