Geo Case Study summaries

  • Unit 1

    • National patterns of population and economic development distribution (e.g. China and USA)

      • Voluntary internal migration

      • core-periphery patterns

      • Megacities

    • Population change and population structure (e.g. japan, ethiopia, china, germany, niger, gambia)

      • factors affecting BR, DR, fertility rate, natural increase, life expectancy

      • DTM, dependency ratios, youthful and ageing populations

      • pro natalist and anti natalist policies

      • impact of ageing population, ageing society policies

      • impact of a youthful population

    • Possibility for a demographic dividend (e.g. ethiopia, kenya, korea, thailand, etc.)

    • Consequences of megacity growt (SPEED) (e.g. Shanghai)

    • Political forced migration examples (e.g. syria, CAR, sudan, ukraine, rohingya)

    • Environmental forced migration examples (e.g. lake chad, etc.)

    • Gender equality policies on an international and country scale (e.g. japan, UN, malawi, etc.)

    • Anti-trafficking policies on muliple scales (e.g. UN/EU, US/UK, and blue gragon)

  • Unit 2

    • Impact of economic development, trade, and globalisation on GHG sources and emissions (e.g. ??)

    • Examples of positive and negative feedback loops

    • Sources of methane

    • international variations in GHG sources and emissions

    • impact of climate change on water stores (sea ice, continental ice glaciers, ice sheets, poles)

    • implicatons of climate change on carbon stores (impact of carbon on ice, ocean acidification and biosphere)

    • Increased heatwaves, storms, flooding, fires, and droughts, variations in drought conditions (HIC, MIC, LIC)

    • impacts of global temperature increase of 1.5, 2, 4C

    • impact of climate change on biomes, habitats, and animal migration patterns

    • Impact on agrilculture, including crop yields, soil, cultivation limits

    • Examples of differering risk and vulnerability (e.g. swiss, inuit, women versus men)

    • differences between adaptation and mitigation

    • global government initiatives (e.g. IPCC, paris agreement, COP 26, glasgow, dubai)

    • Understanding of various mitigation strategies: Carbon trading; Carbon offsetting Alternatives to fossil fuels Geoengineering, Afforestation, Carbon capture and sequestration

    • Strategies and responses to reach zero GHG emissions (e.g. UK government, corporate and civil society responses)

  • Unit 3