
AQA Geography for A Level & AS Human Geography Revision Guide
The AQA Geography for A Level & AS Human Geography Revision Guide is the most student-friendly resource for the 2016 AQA A Level and AS Level Geography specifications - written specially to target the demands of revising for these content-heavy linear geography courses. Accessible, clear and thorough, this revision guide engages all your students. Each Human Geography section is condensed into interesting, relevant single- or double-page examples. Clearly written
objective open each section, setting out for students what they need to revise, using high-quality photos, maps and diagrams to aid retention of key geographical processes and information. Motivating revision activities and a focus on the exam requirements reinforce the rigorous approach.
- Contents
- Introduction: a guide to success
- 1 Global systems and global governance
- 1.1 What is globalisation?
- 1.2 Interdependence and unequal flows
- 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 Antarctica: threats from fishing, whaling and mineral exploitation
- 1.15 Antarctica: scientific research and climate change
- 1.16 Antarctica: tourism
- 1.17 Antarctica: global governance
- 1.18 Globalisation critique
- 2 Changing places
- 2.1 The highs and lows of place
- 2.2 Defining place (and identity)
- 2.3 Categories of place
- 2.4 What shapes the character of places?
- 2.5 The dynamics of change
- 2.6 Management and manipulation of place-meanings
- 2.7 Analysing different representations
- 2.8 Using geospatial data in your place studies
- 2.9 Great Missenden: connected but not protected
- 2.10 Great Missenden: ‘…not some Constable country’
- 2.11 Using oral sources in your place studies
- 2.12 Detroit: boom and bust
- 2.13 Detroit: a home for racial segregation?
- 3 Contemporary urban environments
- 3.1 Global patterns of urbanisation
- 3.2 Forms of urbanisation
- 3.3 Megacities and world cities
- 3.4 World cities in global and regional economies
- 3.5 Urban growth of Bengaluru
- 3.6 Urban change
- 3.7 GIS: planning and development
- 3.8 Urban policy and regeneration in Britain since 1979
- 3.9 Urban form and characteristics
- 3.10 ‘Movie-ing’ to the city
- 3.11 New urban landscapes
- 3.12 The postmodern western city
- 3.13 Multiculturalism and cultural diversity
- 3.14 Urban microclimates
- 3.15 Urban precipitation and wind
- 3.16 Urban air pollution
- 3.17 Urban precipitation and drainage
- 3.18 Drainage management
- 3.19 River restoration and conservation
- 3.20 Urban waste and its disposal
- 3.21 Other contemporary urban environmental issues
- 3.22 Sustainable urban development
- 3.23 Rio – an Olympic city
- 3.24 London – an Olympic city
- 4 Population and the environment
- 4.1 Population and the environment themes
- 4.2 Patterns of food production and consumption
- 4.3 Agricultural systems and productivity
- 4.4 Climate and climate change
- 4.5 Soils and human activities
- 4.6 Soil problems and management
- 4.7 Food security
- 4.8 Global health
- 4.9 Health and morbidity in the UK
- 4.10 What influences health and well-being?
- 4.11 The relationship between place and well-being
- 4.12 Disease and the physical environment
- 4.13 Malaria: the geography of a biologically transmitted disease
- 4.14 Malaria: Millennium Development Goals and eradication
- 4.15 Asthma: the global impact of a non-communicable disease
- 4.16 Asthma: management and mitigation to maximise health and well-being
- 4.17 Natural population change
- 4.18 Models of natural population change
- 4.19 Population structure
- 4.20 Factors of natural population change
- 4.21 Migration change
- 4.22 International migration
- 4.23 Implications of migration to Australia
- 4.24 Environmental constraints on population growth
- 4.25 Balancing population and resources
- 4.26 How will global population change?
- 4.27 Health and environmental change
- 4.28 Global population – the future
- 4.29 Population change in Iran
- 4.30 Relationship between place and health
- 5 Resource security
- 5.1 What is a resource?
- 5.2 Resource peak and sustainability
- 5.3 Global patterns of energy and water
- 5.4 Your way or ‘mine’?
- 5.5 Water security, demand and stress
- 5.6 Relationship of water supply to physical geography
- 5.7 How can we increase water supply?
- 5.8 Environmental impacts of a major water supply scheme
- 5.9 Management of water consumption
- 5.10 Water management and sustainability
- 5.11 Water conflict
- 5.12 Sources of energy and the energy mix
- 5.13 Energy supply and physical geography
- 5.14 Global energy supplies
- 5.15 Environmental impacts of resource development
- 5.16 Increasing energy supply
- 5.17 Energy management
- 5.18 The enhanced greenhouse effect
- 5.19 Sustainability issues and energy production
- 5.20 Ore mineral security
- 5.21 Resource futures
- 5.22 Water crisis in California, USA
- 5.23 Oil exploitation in Alaska, USA
- Glossary