Geography

Course summary

A Level Geography aims to provide a view of the world that focuses upon the connection between physical processes and people. Major areas of study include: · Water and carbon stores at or near the Earth’s surface and the dynamic cyclical relationships associated with them. · The global distribution and size of major stores of water and carbon in the lithosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and atmosphere · Factors driving change and change over time related to systems theory · The impacts of climate change and future sustainability/security issues · Coastal systems, processes and landscapes, · Coastal management including traditional and sustainable approaches · Natural hazards including tectonic, weather and wild fires and their impacts on an ever increasing and vulnerable world population · Plate tectonic theory and related volcanic and seismic activity and hazards, with links to human mitigation and adaption · Storm and wildfire hazards – their causes, impacts and human responses · Global systems and global governance including critique · Globalisation and global systems – economic, political, social and environmental interdependence in the contemporary world · International trade and access to markets · Changing places and peoples engagement with place · Changing relationships, connections, meaning and representations in place on local, regional, national, international and global scales · Local and contrasting place studies · Contemporary urban environments – urbanisation and urban forms · Urban climate, drainage, waste and disposal and contemporary urban environmental issues · Sustainable urban development · Geographical fieldwork investigation – quantitative and qualitative research skills