| Description |
1 online resource (235 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Book title -- Copyright -- My Revision Planner -- Introduction -- Assessing A-level Geography -- The A-level exam papers -- 1 Tectonic processes and hazards -- Spatial variations in the tectonic hazard risk -- Tectonic hazards become disasters -- The management of tectonic hazards and disasters -- 2 Landscape systems, processes and change -- Option A: Glaciated landscapes and change -- Past and present distributions of glacial and periglacial environments -- Glacier systems -- Glacial landforms and landscapes -- The use and management of glaciated and glacial landscapes |
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Option B: Coastal landscapes and change -- Different coastal landscapes and their processes -- Coast landforms and landscapes -- Coastal risks -- Coastal management -- 3 Globalisation -- The causes and acceleration of globalisation -- The global shift -- The challenges of globalisation -- 4 Shaping places -- Option A: Regenerating places -- How and why places vary -- The need for regeneration -- How regeneration is managed -- Assessing the success of regeneration -- Option B: Diverse places -- Population structure, time and place -- Living spaces -- Tensions in diverse places |
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Managing cultural and demographic issues -- 5 The water cycle and water insecurity -- Processes operating within the hydrological cycle -- Changes in hydrological systems over time -- Water insecurity -- 6 The carbon cycle and energy security -- The carbon cycle and terrestrial health -- Consequences of the increasing demand for energy -- Links to the global climate system -- 7 Superpowers -- Changing superpowers -- The global impacts of superpowers -- Contested spheres of influence -- 8 Global development and connections -- Option A: Health, human rights and intervention -- Human development |
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Human rights -- Interventions and human rights -- The outcomes of geopolitical interventions -- Option B: Migration, identity and sovereignty -- Impacts of globalisation on international migration -- The evolution of nation states in a globalised world -- The impacts of global organisations -- Threats of national sovereignty in a more globalised world -- 9 Synoptic themes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- X -- Now test yourself answers |
| Summary |
Target exam success with My Revision Notes. Our updated approach to revision will help students learn, practise and apply their skills and understanding. Coverage ofkey content is combined with practical study tips and effective revision strategies to create a guide that can be relied on to build both knowledge and confidence |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cowling, Dan
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Chiles, Michael
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| ISBN |
9781398325302 |
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1398325309 |
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