human case studies

Question 1

globalisation
positives and negatives to china global shift🎀

Answer 1

+reduced people in poverty by 680 million
+longest high speed rail system
+increase in urban incomes
-resource pressures
-pollution and health problems
-bigger rural-urban divide

Question 2

globalisation
talk about zambia and tanzania 🇹🇿

Answer 2

zambia-copper producer but is landlocked, relies on good relations
tamzam railway
tanzania-cotton industry but cotton prices fall a lot cuz global overproduction so gdp fluctuates and they struggle to switch on
hics cancelled their debt so they invest in edu and link w other countries

Question 3

globalisation
trans-boundary water conflict mekong
3 countries and abit about the situ🐅

Answer 3

china:damming it for HEP to encourage economic development in south
thailand: wants water and elec for industrial development
laos: 90% of pop depends on it for agriculture. HEP dams reduce its flow

Question 4

regeneration
what are the 5 things they did in cornwall and a fun fact🌲

Answer 4

eden project (jobs,year round torism,£2b)
combined unis(❌brain drain, knwlege ec)
wave hub (170 jobs, wave elec, £70m)
watergate bay (sports academy for young)
jamie oliver (trains disadvantaged ppl)

Question 5

regeneration
tower hamlets and kensington fun facties💐

Answer 5

tower-many earn £20k lower than inner london avgs, 4.6% unemployment,healthy street schemes, most densely pop boroug
kens-culture-led regen,avg household income over 40% higher than eng avg,
regionally,economically,nationally,educationally,culturally important, rising property prices, good transport

Question 6

retention
olympics fax

Answer 6

village turned to 1000 affordable homes
50,000 long term jobs, new green spaces
clays lane residents forced to move
cost of living increased in the area

Question 7

superpowers
info about chinas influence☀️

Answer 7

seeks wide influence in asia. uses its SEZs to maintain claims to south china sea
one belt one road infrastructure
africa- ec growth incs resource demand so built infatstxrure for raw mats. made jobs but environmentally bad

Question 8

superpowers
some tensions pls🌙

Answer 8

china and japan historic tensions but now trading partners
china and india border disputes-military presence in himalayas and s c sea
usa can’t keep a positiv influence on middle east cuz its relations w israel
taiwan old chinese govt lives here and claims to be the real govt

Question 9

superpowers
arctic 🐻‍❄️

Answer 9

oil and gas wil b mor accessible with cc
canada(military exercises) norway(expanded navy), denmark(military command and response force), russia (staked a claim)
all want it xx

Question 10

human health
libya 🇱🇾

Answer 10

2011 R2P
HR abuses gadaffi
UN bombing raids by air forces to help civilians
arms embargoes and air strikes
intervention not widely supported-concerns it wasn’t done out of genuinity
good-gadaffi dead bad-lib still unstable

Question 11

human health
ebola❌🫶🤍

Answer 11

weat africa outbreak
successful intervention- spread under control after 6 months
provided vacc programmes and treatment centres
but ppl in isolation couldn’t bury dead fam members or practise their religion

Question 12

human health
australian aboriginals🐻‍❄️🌙

Answer 12

lower life expec, lack literacy + education access + job opps, more smoking, alc, drg
b4 1967 weren’t aus citizens,couldn’t vote
has children removed to be raised in white-run institutions- stolen generations