AQA A-level Geography Fourth Edition notes (1st edition)

Covers AQA spec point: 3.2.3.2 Urban forms - New urban landscapes: town centre mixed developments, cultural and heritage quarters, fortress developments, gentrified areas, edge cities. The concept of the post-modern western city. Summarises all key new urban landscapes as well as including relevant examples for each.

A document covering AQA Spec point: 3.2.3.3 Social and economic issues associated with urbanisation - Issues associated with economic inequality, social segregation and cultural diversity in contrasting urban areas. Strategies to manage these issues. Includes details about social segregation and economic inequality using London and Sao Paulo as the two contrasting urban areas. Strategies to tackle social segregation and economic inequality are outlined.

Covers AQA spec point: 3.2.3.1 Urban policy and regeneration in the UK since 1979. A summary of the main urban policies in the UK since 1979 Includes Enterprise Zones, Urban Development Corporations, City Challenge and New Deal for Communities strategies with examples for each. One of the documents I used to get an A* in A Level Geography.

A document covering AQA spec point: 3.2.3.4 Thunderstorms in urban environments Summary of the causes of urban thunderstorms. One of the documents I used to get an A* in A Level Geography.

This document is a collection of detailed notes on the Coasts topic including: beaches, system and processes, erosion, deposition, mass movement etc.

Global Systems and Governance Fact Sheet with all the relevant information relating to the spec. Especially useful for 20 markers

Concept of a hazard in a geographical context (types of natural hazard, characteristics of natural hazards, how does a hazard become a disaster, risk & vulnerability, hazard perception, hazard management, park model, hazard management cycle) Seismic hazards (causes, distribution, focus & epicentre, seismic waves, magnitude & frequency, primary & secondary hazards, impacts, short & long-term responses) Tropical storms (nature, formation, distribution, magnitude & frequency, primary & secondary ...

Globalisation (forms, dimensions, history) Flows of globalisation (capital, labour, products, services, information) Globalisation critique (pros vs cons - socio/economic/environmental/political) International trade (trade blocs, patterns of trade, WTO, World bank, IMF - international agencies vs climate change - Kyoto Protocol & Paris Agreement)