Courtesy of Simon Cracknell

1. Case studies-Unit 2
People and the Planet

2. Section 1-Population Dynamics
• Pro-natalist policy
– Singapore [Modern times]
• Anti-natalist
– China [One Child Policy] and formerly Singapore
• Management of population
– Mexico [Young people and the development of IT skill]
• Ageing population [UK, Japan-Any low BR country]
• Immigration [UK, Germany]
• Polish migration [To UK]

3. Section 2-Consuming resources
• Thermal Power station-
– Drax, Selby, in Yorkshire [Why is it unique?]
• Wind power-
– Outer Hebrides-Lewis [Use to explain pros]
– Orkney Islands-[Bought and maintain own windfarm]
• Future sources-Hydrogen
• Intermediate technology-Biogasifiers [LEDC’s]
• Theories of Consumption [Malthus and Boserup]

4. Section 3-Globalisation
• Large scale case studies
– Ghana [Types of crop + limitations. Role of history]
– China [Adv/disadv’ of labour force and ‘Foxconn’]
– UK [Minimum wages, employment types]
• Global institutions
– IMF, WTO and TNCs
• Named TNC
– BT and Nike/Apple [Apple is synoptic with China and
Foxconn]

5. Section 4-Development Dilemmas
• Two countries either side of the Brandt Line
– UK, Japan, versus Ghana, China, Malawi, etc]
• Theories
– Rostow’s model of development
– Frank’s Dependency theory
• Malawi-causes of slow development
• India-Contrast Maharashtra and Bihar
• Top down v Bottom up.
Need to link a country studied to an appropriate project.
– Top down would be Three Gorges in China
– Bottom up could be bio-gasifiers in Malawi or Ghana

6. Section 5-Changing economy of the UK
• Ford, Dagenham-Mechanisation and various impacts.
• Changing UK-Examples in Rotherham and London
– ‘New Economy’ [Where, what jobs, nature of jobs?]
– ‘Knowledge economy’
• Life in contrasting regions
– North East v South East [inc’ London]
• Brownfield v Greenfield sites plus named examples
– Fort Dunlop [deindustrialisation and economic
diversification

7. Section 7-Challenges of the Urban Environment
• Mumbai v Los Angeles-Urban growth characteristics
• Growth of a local city to a global city [London]
• London’s [and UK] eco footprint + strategies
– Transport [Underground, Boris Bikes, Congestion charge]
– Carbon Zero living [BedZED-Beddington Zero Fossil Energy
Development] Recycling strategies [Local schemes]
• Challenges of informal economy-Mumbai [Kevin Mc
Cloud video [100% recycling]
• Self Help schemes in Rio de Janeiro [Rocinha]
• Curitiba [LEDC alternative to Mumbai?]
• Dongtan, China [New sustainable city-Additional
example]