Mollyidean

Notes on: - Global patterns of health, mortality and morbidity. Economic and social development and the epidemiological transition. - The relationship between environment variables eg climate, topography (drainage) and incidence of disease. Air quality and health. Water quality and health. - The global prevalence, distribution, seasonal incidence of one specified biologically transmitted disease, eg malaria; its links to physical and socio-economic environments including impacts of en...

Notes on: - Global and regional patterns of food production and consumption. Agricultural systems and agricultural productivity. Relationship with key physical environmental variables – climate and soils. - Characteristics and distribution of two major climatic types to exemplify relationships between climate and human activities and numbers. Climate change as it affects agriculture. - Characteristics and distribution of two key zonal soils to exemplify relationship between soils and ...

Notes on: The environmental context for human population characteristics and change. Key elements in the physical environment: climate, soils, resource distributions including water supply. Key population parameters: distribution, density, numbers, change. Key role of development processes. Global patterns of population numbers, densities and change rates.

Notes on: - Concept of environmental fragility. Human impacts on fragile cold environments over time and at a variety of scales. - Recent and prospective impact of climate change. - Management of cold environments at present and in alternative possible futures.

Notes on: The 3.1.1 section of the specification focuses on the major stores of water and carbon at or near the Earth’s surface and the dynamic cyclical relationships associated with them. These are major elements in the natural environment and understanding them is fundamental to many aspects of physical geography. This section specifies a systems approach to the study of water and carbon cycles. The content invites students to contemplate the magnitude and significance of the cycles at...

Notes on: - Health impacts of global environmental change: ozone depletion – skin cancer, cataracts; climate change – thermal stress, emergent and changing distribution of vector borne diseases, agricultural productivity and nutritional standards. - Prospects for the global population. Projected distributions. Critical appraisal of future populationenvironment relationships

Notes on: - Population growth dynamics. Concepts of overpopulation, underpopulation and optimum population. Implications of population size and structure for the balance between population and resources; the concepts of ‘carrying capacity’ and ‘ecological footprint’ and their implications. - Population, resources and pollution model: positive and negative feedback. Contrasting perspectives on population growth and its implications; Malthusian, neo-Malthusian and alternatives such a...

Notes on: - Factors in natural population change: the demographic transition model, key vital rates, age–sex composition; cultural controls. Models of natural population change, and their application in contrasting physical and human settings. Concept of the Demographic Dividend. - International migration: refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants: environmental and socio-economic causes, processes. Demographic, environmental, social, economic, health and political implications of ...

Notes on: - The nature and importance of places - Changing places – relationships, connections, meaning and representation - Place studies

Notes on: - Globalisation - Global systems - International trade and access to markets - Global governance - The global 'commons'