Global ChallengesWritten for Edexcel B AS and A2 geography, this student book uses case studies to illustrate key concepts. It has opportunities for fieldwork, independent research and ICT, as well as focused questions to enhance learning. |
Contents
How to use this book | 5 |
Weather and climate in the midlatitudes | 20 |
The challenge of seasonality in the tropics | 36 |
Global climatic change | 49 |
Global biomes Jane Ferretti and Chris Ryan | 68 |
Global population Andy Owen | 131 |
An overcrowded world? | 144 |
Migration and its consequences | 167 |
The changing global economy Bob Digby | 181 |
Going bananas? | 204 |
The global economy transnational corporations | 219 |
What will the global economy look like in the future? | 248 |
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Africa anticyclones areas Asia average bananas biomes Birmingham birth rates Caribbean causes cent centre Chapter China climate change companies conservation coral reefs countries damage deciduous demographic transition depression drought Earth economic ecosystems effects El Niño emissions employment energy environment environmental Europe exports Fairtrade famine fertility fires fish forest global warming greenhouse Greenpeace groups Hadley cell human activity hurricane impact income increase India Indonesia industry Islands issues ITCZ Japan jet stream Kiribati land LEDCs levels living Malaysia mangrove marine ecosystems Mattel MEDCs Met Office migration million nations natural Niño North nutrients oceans organisations patterns plants pollution population growth problems production rain rainfall region rural season shows social soil South species storm Taiwan temperatures Thailand theory box TNCs tourism trade trees tropical rainforest urban weather West Midlands whaling winds winter women zone