AQA Geography A Level: A Level: AQA Geography A Level & AS Human Geography Student Book
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Language
English
ISBN
9780198497974
Front Cover
Title Page
Contents
1 Global systems and global 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 Antarctica: threats from fishing, whaling and mineral exploitation
1.15 Antarctica: threats from scientific research and climate change
1.16 Antarctica: tourism
1.17 Antarctica: global governance
1.18 Globalisation critique
Practice questions
2 Changing places
2.1 The highs and lows of place
2.2 Defining place
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?
Practice questions
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 Multiculturism 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
Practice questions
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
Practice questions
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 and energy production
5.20 Ore mineral security
5.21 Resource futures
5.22 Water crisis in California, USA
Oil exploitation 5.23 in Alaska, USA
Practice questions
6 Geography fieldwork investigation
Your AQA Geography AS or A Level
Glossary
Index
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