Edexcel GCE Geography Y2 A Level Student Book
1st Edition
Published on 13. October 2017
322 pages
978-1-292-13987-6 (ISBN)
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Content
- Front Cover
- Contents
- How to use this book
- A level assessment outline
- Individual investigation
- Paper 3 synoptic investigation
- Topic 5: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity
- What are the processes operating within the hydrological cycle from global to local scale?
- The global hydrological cycle
- A drainage basin: an open system
- Physical factors affecting drainage basin inputs
- Physical factors affecting drainage basin fl ows
- Physical factors affecting drainage basin outputs
- Human disruptions to the drainage basin cycle
- Local-scale water budgets and river systems
- River regimes
- Storm hydrographs
- What factors influence the hydrological system over short- and long-term timescales?
- Deficits within the hydrological cycle (drought)
- The physical causes of drought
- Drought risk from human activities
- The impacts of drought on ecosystems
- Hydrological cycle surpluses and fl ooding
- The meteorological causes of flooding
- Human actions that can increase flood risk
- How climate change may affect the hydrological cycle
- Uncertainties and water security
- How does water insecurity occur, and why is it becoming such a global issue for the 21st century?
- The causes of water insecurity
- The physical causes of water insecurity
- The human causes of water insecurity
- Rising demand and future water scarcity
- The consequences and risks of water insecurity
- The global pattern of water scarcity
- The price of water
- The importance of water supply
- Conflicts between water users
- Different approaches to managing water supply
- Hard-engineering schemes
- Sustainable water supply schemes
- Integrated drainage basin management
- Summary: Knowledge check
- Preparing for your A level exams
- Preparing for your A level exams
- Thinking Synoptically: Water Stress
- Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security
- How does the carbon cycle operate to maintain planetary health?
- Long-term biogeochemical cycles
- Carbon stores
- Sedimentary carbonate rocks
- Geological carbon release
- Short-term biological processes
- Surface and deep ocean waters
- Terrestrial primary producers and soils
- Earth systems and human activities
- The natural greenhouse effect
- Oceanic and terrestrial photosynthesis
- The implications of fossil fuel consumption
- What are the consequences for people and the environment of our increasing demand for energy?
- Energy security
- Consumption patterns and energy mix
- Access to energy resources
- Energy players
- Fossil fuels and economic development
- Fossil fuels: supply and demand
- Energy pathways
- Unconventional fossil fuel resources
- Alternative energy resources
- Renewable and recyclable energy
- The growth of biofuels
- Radical technologies
- How are the carbon and water cycles linked to the global climate system?
- Threats to the carbon and water cycles
- The growing demand for resources
- Ocean acidification
- Shifting climates
- Implications for human wellbeing
- Forest loss
- Increased temperature and evaporation rates
- Threats to ocean health
- Responses to large-scale carbon release
- Natural and human factors and feedback mechanisms
- Adaptation strategies
- Rebalancing the carbon cycle
- Summary: Knowledge check
- Preparing for your A level exams
- Preparing for your A level exams
- Thinking Synoptically: Twilight of Resources
- Topic 7: Superpowers
- What are superpowers and how have they changed over time?
- Geopolitical power
- The characteristics of superpowers
- How superpowers maintain power
- Superpowers and geostrategic theory
- Patterns of power
- Colonial (direct) control
- Post-war indirect control
- Geopolitical stability and risk
- The influence of the emerging powers
- BRICS countries and the G20
- The likely success of emerging countries
- Development theories
- What are the impacts of superpowers on the global economy, political systems and the physical environment?
- The global economic system
- Intergovernmental organisations
- TNCs and trade
- 'Western' cultural influence
- International decision-making
- Global action
- Global geostrategy
- The UN and global stability
- Global environmental concerns
- Environmental degradation
- Willingness to act
- Resources and future consumption
- What spheres of influence are contested by superpowers and what are the implications of this?
- How global influence is contested
- Disputes over resources
- Intellectual property and counterfeiting
- Challenges to spheres of influence
- Relationships with developing nations
- The challenges and opportunities of interdependence
- The world's changing centre of gravity
- Continuing tension in the Middle East
- Challenges to the existing superpowers
- Economic problems
- Questioning global military power
- Summary: Knowledge check
- Preparing for your A level exams
- Preparing for your A level exams
- Thinking Synoptically: Haiti Vulnerability
- Topic 8A: Global development and connections: Health, Human Rights and Intervention
- What is human development and why do levels vary from place to place?
- Concepts of human development
- Traditional measures of development
- Alternative measures of development
- Health and human rights goals
- Development through economic growth
- The role of education in development
- Patterns of human health and life expectancy
- Health and life expectancy in the developing world
- Health and life expectancy in the developed world
- Health and life expectancy variations within countries
- The role of governments and IGOs
- Links between economic and social development
- The views and programmes of IGOs
- Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals
- Why do human rights vary from place to place?
- Human rights laws
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- The European Convention on Human Rights
- The Geneva Convention
- Definitions and protection of human rights
- Approaches to human rights
- Variations in human rights and freedom of speech
- Levels of political corruption
- Social development and human rights
- Gender and ethnicity rights
- Health and education differences
- Equality movements within countries
- How are human rights used as arguments for political and military intervention?
- Geopolitical interventions
- Aid, embargoes and military action
- Interventions and consensus
- Justifications for intervention
- The impact of development aid
- Forms of development aid
- The strengths and weaknesses of development aid
- Economic development, the environment and human rights
- Military aid and intervention
- Motives for military intervention
- Military aid
- Direct military intervention
- What are the outcomes of geopolitical interventions interms of human development and human rights?
- Measuring the success of interventions
- Measurements of success
- Democratic institutions and freedom of expression
- Economic growth versus wellbeing and rights
- The mixed record of development aid
- Aid, development, health and human rights
- Economic inequalities and health and life expectancy
- Superpowers and development aid
- The mixed record of military interventions
- The costs of military interventions
- Non-military interventions
- The consequences of lack of action
- Summary: Knowledge check
- Preparing for your A level exams
- Preparing for your A level exams
- Topic 8B: Global development and connections: Migration, Identity and Sovereignty
- What are the impacts of globalisation on international migration?
- Globalisation and increasing migration
- Migration within countries
- Migration between countries
- Patterns of international migration
- The causes of migration
- Challenges to national identity and sovereignty
- The movement of labour within countries
- The consequences of international migration
- Contrasting responses to migration
- Unequal controls on international migration
- How are nation states defined and how have they evolved in a globalising world?
- What is a nation state?
- The origins of national borders
- Contested borders and conflict
- Nationalism and the modern world
- Independence movements since 1945
- The 'wind of change'
- Post-colonial conflict
- A new international economic order
- Post-colonial migration
- The emergence of new state forms
- Tax havens and tax avoidance
- Growing inequality: a threat to the world economy
- What are the impacts of global organisations on managing global issues and conflicts?
- Important global organisations (post-1945)
- The UN's role in global governance
- UN geopolitical interventions
- The 'war on terror', geopolitical relations and global stability
- IGO control of world trade and financial flows
- The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
- GATT and the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
- Structural adjustment and poverty reduction
- Economic IGOs and trading blocs
- IGO management of environmental problems
- Management of the oceans, rivers and biodiversity
- The management of Antarctica
- What are the threats to national sovereignty in a more globalised world?
- The concept of national identity
- Identity, loyalty and national 'character'
- National identity and multinationalism
- Challenges to national identity
- 'Westernisation'
- International ownership patterns
- The consequences of national disunity
- Political tensions in emerging economies
- Failed states
- Summary: Knowledge check
- Preparing for your A level exams
- Preparing for your A level exams
- Appendix: Maths and statistics answers
- Independent Investigation
- Activity page 14
- Chapter 2: Carbon and Energy
- Activity page 81
- Activity page 89
- Activity page 96
- Activity page 121
- Chapter 5: Migration, identity and sovereignty
- Activity page 268
- Glossary
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- Back Cover
