Torr Quarry, Rural Buckinghamshire, Outer Hebridies, Jamaica

Question 1

Torr Quarry, Somerset

Answer 1

Outside Mendiphill - 100 employees - mine limestone
75% of limestone leaves by train - less GHG’s releases + reduces traffic
200 acres of previous quarry was replanted and regenerated.
Monitoring + acting on Water Pollution, Vibrations, Noise pollution, light pollution, dust pollution.

Question 2

Rural Buckinghamshire

Answer 2

• Good transport to london and Oxford - chiltern railways + M40
• Commuter towns busy at 8am and 6pm
• Picturesque countryside - chilterns
• Good school system - grammar schools
• From 2010 - 2020 there is a 9.5% population increase
• Population of 550,000.
  Only 9% of southern Buckinghamshire is urban

Question 3

Outer Hebridies

Answer 3

Population Stonoway: 4500
Impact on services:
Number of school children expected to fall
post offices closing
Impact on dependant population :
Fewer working people as they move away

Increase in elderly population 45+ years. Decrease in youth population.

Question 4

Tourism in Jamaica to reduce Development Gap

Answer 4

4 million tourists annually
Locations: Montego bay, Negril, Manchester Club Golf Course, Bob Marley Museum, Mystic Mountain Eco-park.
Problems :
- over-reliant on tourism -> seasonality
- Cruise Ship pollution -> smoke and GHG’s from cruise ships, lost 80% of coral in last 30 years.