Oxford International AQA Examinations: International A Level Geography Human
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English
ISBN
9780198417378
Front Cover
Title Page
Contents
1 Global systems and governance
1.1 What is globalisation?
1.2 Interdependence and unequal flows of people
1.3 The internet and single-product economies
1.4 International trade
1.5 Trading relationships
1.6 Trade agreements and access to markets
1.7 Transnational corporations
1.8 World trade: Coca-Cola
1.9 World trade: fair trade?
1.10 Global food systems
1.11 Global governance
1.12 Global governance: issues and inequalities
1.13 The global commons: what is it?
1.14 The oceans as a global common
1.15 Threats to the world’s oceans
1.16 Pollution and the oceans
1.17 Governance of the world’s oceans
1.8 Globalisation critique
Now practise…
2 Resource security
2.1 What is a resource?
2.2 Resource peak and sustainability
2.3 Global patterns of energy and water
2.4 Your way or ‘mine’?
2.5 Water security, demand and stress
2.6 Relationship of water supply to physical geography
2.7 How can we increase water supply?
2.8 Environmental impacts of a major water supply scheme
2.9 Management of water consumption
2.10 Water management and sustainability
2.11 Water conflict
2.12 Sources of energy and the energy mix
2.13 Energy supply and physical geography
2.14 Global energy supplies
2.15 Environmental impacts of resource development
2.16 Increasing energy supply
2.17 Energy management
2.18 The enhanced greenhouse effect
2.19 Sustainability and energy production
2.20 Resource futures
2.21 Water and energy solutions in India
2.22 Water crisis in California, USA
2.23 Oil and gas exploitation in the Arabian Gulf
Now practise…
3 Changing places
3.1 The highs and lows of place
3.2 Defining place
3.3 Categories of place
3.4 What shapes the character of places?
3.5 The dynamics of change
3.6 Management and manipulation of place meanings
3.7 Analysing different representations
3.8 Using geospatial data in your place studies
3.9 Great Missenden: connected but not protected?
3.10 Great Missenden: ‘…not some Constable country’
3.11 Using oral sources in your place studies
3.12 Detroit: boom and bust
3.13 Detroit: a home for racial segregation?
3.14 Abu Dhabi: from desert outpost to modern paragon
3.15 Abu Dhabi: a dynamic and changing place
Now practise…
4 People and contemporary urban environments
4.1 Global patterns of urbanisation
4.2 Megacities and world cities
4.3 World cities in global and regional economies
4.4 Urban growth of Bengaluru
4.5 Urban change in the more developed world
4.6 Urban change in the more developed world (continued)
4.7 Urban change in the developing world
4.8 Urban change in the developing world (continued)
4.9 Urban change in the developing world (continued)
4.10 Urban change in the developing world (continued)
4..11 Urban change in the developing world (continued)
4.12 Urban form and characteristics
4.13 ‘Movie-ing’ to the city
4.14 New urban landscapes
4.15 The postmodern western city
4.16 Social and economic issues associated with urbanisation
4.17 Urban microclimates
4.18 Urban precipitation and wind
4.19 Urban air pollution
4.20 Urban waste and its disposal
4.21 Urban health
4.22 Health and well-being in cities
4.23 Disease and the environment
4.24 Malaria: the geography of a biologically transmitted disease
4.25 Malaria: Millennium Development Goals and eradication
4.26 Asthma: the impact of a non-communicable disease within urban areas
4.27 Asthma: management and mitigation to maximise health and well-being
4.28 Other contemporary urban environmental issues
4.29 Sustainable urban development
4.30 Rio: an Olympic city
4.31 London: an Olympic city
Now practise…
5 Fieldwork and geographical skills
Your Oxford AQA International Geography AS or A Level
Glossary
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