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Indonesia
- TNCs
- Positives
- Provide employment and teach new skills
- Invest in local infrastructure and education
- Other local companies benefit
- More export revenues
- Negatives
- Workers are on low wages
- Working conditions can be very poor
- Management jobs go to foreign employees
- Much of the profit goes abroad
- Positives
- Effects of urban growth
- Poor access to clean water and waste disposal means diseases are easily spread
- Workers are paid little and can only afford a meal a day
- Rain forest is cut down for more resources and more roads
- There is a lot of pollution due to factories
- Children don't stay in full time education as they have to work so that their family can have more food
- TNCs
Svalbard
- Opportunities
- Mineral Extraction
- Provides jobs
- Controversial topic
- Fishing
- 150+ Species
- Carefully monitored for sustainable ecosystem
- Energy developmeny
- Geo-thermal energy
- Provides jobs
- Tourism
- Provides as many jobs as mining
- Adventure or cruise holidays
- Mineral Extraction
- Challenges
- -30 degrees C weather
- Need lots of layers
- Dangerous to work outside
- Construction
- If permafrost melts the buildings may collapse
- Can only build during a brief summer
- Services
- Most power and water lines have to be above ground and heated
- This stops permafrost melting
- Accessibility
- Only reached by sea or air
- No roads outside of Longyearbyen
- -30 degrees C weather
- Opportunities
Earthquakes
- Chile (8.8 magnitude)
- Effects
- Primary
- 500 deaths, 12000 injuries, 800,000 people affected
- US$30 billion damage
- Power, water and communications cuts
- Destruction of infrastructure
- Secondary
- Landslides cut off communities
- Costal towns destroyed by tsunamis
- Chemical plant in Santiago had a fire
- Primary
- Responses
- Immediate
- Effective response from emergency services
- Key roads repaired within 24 hours
- Most power and water restored in 10 days
- 30,000 emergency wooden shelters were built
- Long Term
- 200,000 homes rebuilt by the government
- Strong economy reduced the need of foreign aid
- Full recovery within 4 years
- Immediate
- Effects
- Nepal (7.9 magnitude)
- Responses
- Immediate
- Overseas aid from NGOs (Oxfam)
- 300,000 people migrated from Kathmandu for help
- Aid included helicopters dropping supplies in remote areas
- Long Term
- Roads repaired, landslides cleared and flood lakes drained
- International conference to seek technical and financial support
- India border blockade stopped fuel, medicine and construction material getting to Nepal
- Immediate
- Effects
- Primary
- 9000 deaths, 20,000 injuries, 8 million people affected
- Widespread destruction of infrastructure
- Power, water, sanitation and communications cut off
- US$5 billion damage
- Secondary
- Communities cut off due to landslides and avalanches
- Avalanches on Mount Everest killed at least 19 people
- Flooding caused ad rivers blocked by landslides
- Primary
- Responses
- Chile (8.8 magnitude)
Typhoon Hiayan
- Key facts
- One of the strongest category 5 storms ever
- 5m storm surge swept to shore by 170mph winds
- Coastal devastation, 90% of Tacloban destroyed
- Effects
- Primary
- 6300 killed, mostly by the storm surge
- Over 600,000 displaced, 40,000 homes destroyed or damaged
- Over 400mm of rain caused widespread flooding
- Wind damaged buildings, power lines and crops
- Secondary
- 14 million affected, 6 million jobs lost
- Looting and violence in Tacloban
- Flooding caused landslides, cutting off remote areas
- Power, water, food and shelter shortages led to disease
- Infrastructure destroyed
- Primary
- Responses
- Immediate
- Rapid overseas aid including NGOs
- Field hospitals to help the injured
- Over 1200 evacuation centres set up
- Long Term
- UN and international financial aid, supplies and medical support
- Re-building infrastructure, Rice farming and fishing quickly re-established
- Homes re-built in safer areas
- More cyclone shelters built
- Immediate
- Key facts
Bristol
- Importance of Bristol
- Good transport, including major airport and 2 docks
- Two large universities
- 8th most popular city for foreign tourists
- High migrant population
- Changes of Bristol
- £100 million was given from the government to become a super connected city with high speed broadband
- University educated and highly skilled work force
- Advanced aerospace industries
- Clean non-polluted environment
- Importance of Bristol
Malaysian Rain Forest
- Impacts of Deforestation
- Gains
- Job creation
- Tax is used to pay public services
- Improved transport infrastructure helps benefit the tourism industry
- Plantations help support processing inustries
- Losses
- Soil erosion
- Water pollution and increasing droughts may limit supplies
- Fires destroy large amounts of habitat and pollute
- Rain forest tourism could decrease
- Plants that provide medical benefits may go extinct
- Gains
- Threats to the Rain Forest
- Logging
- Road building
- Mineral Extraction
- Commercial farming
- Subsistence farming (slash and burn)
- Why should they be protected
- Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- Medicine
- Resources
- Impacts of Deforestation
Rio de Janeiro
- Social solutions
- 300km of new pipelines and 7 new treatment plants led to 95% having access to water
- Poorer families are given grants so that they can afford to send their children to school
- 60km of power lines installed and a nuclear power station
- Economic solutions
- Schools of Tomorrow aim to improve schools in poor or violent areas
- Free childcare enables teenage parents to return to education
- Police have taken control of crime-dominated favelas
- Environmental solution
- Expansion of the Metro system
- 12 new sewage plants since 2004
- Ships are charged for illegal discharge of fuel
- A power plant has been made that consumes 30 tonnes of waste a day and provides electricity for 1000 homes
- Social solutions
Freiburg
- Social
- Local people are involved in the urban planning of the city
- Financial rewards are given to those who compost green waste and use textile nappies
- Environmental
- Reduced annual waste disposal from 140,000 to 50,000 tonnes
- 88% of packaging waste is recucled
- 28,000 homes get energy from burning non-recyclable waste
- 400 solar installations in the city
- Economic
- More than 10,000 employed in 1500 environmental businesses
- There is a solar training centre to teach people about the modern solar technology
- Social
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- GCSE Geography Mapa Mental sobre Geography case studies, creado por Matt Arnold el 27/12/2018.
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