Autumn Term
Paper 2: Challenges in the Human Environment – Urban Issues and Challenges
- Urbanisation – causes of growth
- Emergence of megacities: definition and growth
- Rio Case Study – Opportunities – pull factors
- Rio Case Study – Challenges – crime, services, risks
- Rio Case Study – Solutions – pacification, site and service, medical
- Liverpool Case Study – Opportunities – pull factors
- Liverpool Case Study – Challenges – social deprivation, healthcare, education
- Liverpool Case Study – Solutions – Liverpool One, Anfield, traffic, recycling
- Sustainable Urban Living/Traffic
- BedZED Case study
Spring Term
Paper 1: Living with the Physical Environment – Coasts
- Coastal W & E/Erosion Landforms
- Erosion Landforms: headlands and bays
- Transport processes: longshore drift
- Deposition Landforms: beaches, bars, spits, tombolos
- Identifying UK Examples/Management: hard and soft engineering
- Management Case Study: Sefton Coast
Summer Term
Paper 1: Living with the Physical Environment – Rivers
- River Valleys/E &T & D
- Erosion Landforms: V-shaped valleys, waterfalls
- Meanders and oxbow lakes
- Deposition Landforms: floodplains, levees, deltas
- River from Source to Mouth: Clyde
- Discharge Hydrograph
- Hard and Soft Engineering
- Flood Management: Stokesley Case Study