P2 shortened case study's Flashcards
Dubai
Changing places - media places
-United Arab Emirates
-presented as a glamourous, luxurious and high-status place
-many low paid migrant workers, spend 41% of their wages on housing
-Sense of place greatly varies between the workers and the wealthy business owners
Bristol - regeneration
Changing places - near place
-SW England
-Industrialised = early 19th century
-Went into decline in late 1960’s- docks became outdated and too small (containerisation)
-Regeneration started in 1970’s- 3000 new jobs created
-£500 million inward investment (Ashton Gate, metro bus, Cabot Circus)
-Bristol considered a clone town (placelessness, homogenisation)
-economy broke down, little flow of money, crime increased (negative multiplier effect)
-unemployment rose by 20%
-Land was contaminated by industrial waste
St Pauls (Bristol)
Changing places
-Windrush was housed (20-30 people in each house)
-St Pauls became centre of drug trafficking for the southwest (drug capital in UK)
TIMELINE:
-Wealthy merchants live - 1900’s
-WW2 and mass bombings- 1939-45
-Windrush generation moves in- 1948
-Boycott buses- 1963
-Drug wars (Yardies vs Aggy crew)- 1980’s-90’s
-Sus law- 1980 (stop and search law)
-Hipsters move in- early mid 2000’s
Detroit
Changing places- far place
(changing character of a place)
-USA in state of Michigan
-Steel belt boom- 19th-20th century (assembly line)
-Steel belt (waterways-canals-roads-railroads) -connect iron ore mines to coal resources
-deindustrialisation (rust belt)- late 20th century
-(1916-1970)- millions of African Americans moved from southern places for jobs, escape racism
TIMELINE:
-Big 3- Chrysler, ford and General Motors
-1970’s onwards people preferred Asian cars (Toyota etc)
-Detroit’s big employers= decline in sales (unemployment)
-Detroit bankrupt- 2013
-Dan Gilbert, billionaire is owner of Quicken loans and bought 60 buildings in downtown Detroit (regeneration)
-5.5-mile walk/cycle path put along water’s edge (link suburbs)
Poland to Peterborough
- Poland= in central Europe
- Peterborough= Cambridgeshire, England
-Polish work hard for little money, Brits wont
-15,000 more people since 2004
-1 in 10 residents here are Polish
-This is one of the fastest growing economies (host country benefit)
-language barriers (schools, police)
-more job opportunities for women in Poland (home country benefit)- women doing ‘men’s’ jobs like firefighting
-Remittances from UK to Poland
-overcrowding, increased pressures on UK systems
China to Africa
(FDI)
-Nigeria- 2006- infrastructure built in exchange for preferential oil right bidding- $5.38 billion
-CHINA GAINS:
China makes allies, set up military bases, spread of Chinese influence/political influence and gains resources
-AFRICA GAINS
Increased local employment, infrastructure, machinery, roads, internet and access to global markets
-DEBT DIPLOMACY:
China could give Africa a port out of loan and once built Africa then owe China the price of the port+interest, when Africa cannot afford to pay that back, China now own that area and can avoid taxes etc
Coffee
-Bean belt is a strip between tropics where all the coffee in the world is grown (due to hot, wet climate)
-Crisis in Columbia- due to coffee prices falling and violence increasing= no choice but to grow coca (cocaine)
-Deforestation occurred to make room for coffee or coca plantations
-Fairtrade - help coffee farmers in Columbia get a fair price
- Most coffee farmers receive 7-10% of profits back, TNCs recieve the majority
-Between 1999 and 2002, prices fell by 50% to a 30-year low
Bhopal
Union Carbide (TNC)
India
-1984, a pesticides factory had a leakage of deadly chemicals
-Impacted 520,000 people surrounding the factory
-Impact was sickness, burning, suffocation, local hospitals became overwhelmed
-Deaths= 15-20k
-Overall health impact= ½ a million
-3 safety systems failed in the factory (TNC neglect)
remittances to Somalia
-Remittances make more of the country’s income than any other source ($1.8 billion)
Antarctica
Global common
-Roughly 37000 people visit Antarctica each year
-If melted, sea levels would rise around 70m
-90% of all ice on earth
-70% of all the Earth’s wesh water
-5 threats to Antarctica: climate change, fishing, scientific research, tourism and mined materials
7 organisations set up to protect and monitor Antarctica:
- Governance for threat of climate: COP 27
- Governance for threat of fishing: CCAMLR and IWC
- Governance for threat of tourism: IAATO, PEP Madrid
- Governance for threat of mineral exploitation: PEP Madrid
- Governance for threat of scientific research: PEP Madrid and ATS
Walmart (TNC)
-Revenue made in 2009- $505 billion
-HQ in Arkansas
-A lot of workers are poorly paid so rely on state benefits
-has opened some ‘green stores’ people drive to them
-2015 donated over $2 million to west African countries impacted by natural disasters
Rana Plaza
- Biggest disaster in clothing industry
- An 8-story factory collapsed in Dhaka- Bangladesh
- Happened on 24th April 2013
- Death toll of 1,134
- This collapsed due to a structural failure and TNC’s race to the bottom
- Supplied clothes to places like Walmart, Primark and Zara
Bangladesh
(population change)
-Population around 165 million
-Moving from stage 2 to stage 3 of DTM
-Fertility rate - 7.0 in 1970
-Fertility rate= 2.3 in 2017
-Capital- Dhaka- one of most densely populated cities in world - 70% live in slums
-Estimated in 2015 more than 120,000 deaths in Bangladesh due to exposure to fine particle matter 2.5 in the air
Malaria
communicable + infectious
spread through vectors
common in tropical/ subtropical areas
can be fatal if not treated
vaccine available
symptoms leave after 2 weeks with treatment
symptoms- nausea, high fever, shaking chills, headache, fatigue
CHD
non- communicable
coronary heart disease
Blood vessels supplying the heart are narrowed or blocked
CANNOT be cured, CAN be treated
cause- diet of saturated fats + cholesterol
symptoms - chest pain, shortness of breath, feeling faint, sick often
