Environmental+change



Thursday 6th March 2014

1) Use the Course companion and your own notes to write a definition for **agro industrialisation** on your terminology sheet.

2) Copy this table into your notes. Use the links below to add to the table.

Include key facts and figures || Change in consumption include key facts and figures || reason || impact ||
 * type || change in production
 * poultry farming in China ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Green revolution in India ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Palm Oil Indonesia ||  ||   ||   ||   ||

a) Poultry farming in China
[] [|http://www.naturalnews.com/039318_kfc_antibiotics_chicken_supply.html#] [] [] []

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b) Green revolution in India
[] [] [] [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution#Environmental_impact#Environmental_impact]

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c) Palm oil in Indonesia
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Friday 7th March

Read p355 'course companion'.

Use these resources from http://www.geographyalltheway.com/

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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/mar/23/food.ethicalliving?INTCMP=SRCH http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/business/worldbusiness/26food.html?_r=5&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print& http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/boeing-forecasts-air-cargo-growth-driven-by-globalization-and-trade-172362011.html http://www.geographyalltheway.com/in/ib-global-interactions/imagesetc/environmental-effects-freight-focus.pdf

Prepare a 5 minute speech on your own to answer this question: "food miles are not a reliable indicator of environmental impact" discuss this statement. Use the planning tool to help to structure your argument.



Tuesday 11th March 2014

1) Read through p358 of the course companion. 2) Make a list of the reasons for TNCs relocating their industries. Use these to create an annotated diamond 9. 3) Use the information here http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/152627/ to annotate a diagram of the environmental kuznets curve.



Create an A3 size case study sheet on the relocation of Nike.

Include: Reasons for relocating (Social, economic, environmental, political) A map of the manufacturing areas Consequences Responses



http://www.philstar.com/business/2013/04/17/931434/nike-indonesia-employing-more-hundred-thousand-workers http://www.businesstoday-eg.com/case-studies/case-studies/the-swoosh-goes-green-environment-sustainability-proposal-by-nike.html



Wednesday and Thursday 12th and 13th March Your task is to prepare a 3 minute mini presentation on one aspect of the River Danube Baia Mare Pollution. Work in threes: Group 1) Describe the location of the Danube and its transboundary nature. Explain the issues this causes for management of water quality. Group 2) Then explain the long term emvironmental issues in the River Danube. Examine the range of factors causing long term pollution Group 3) Explain the role of TNCs in the point source pollution incident Group 4) Examine the effects of the Danube pollution at a range of scales (long, short term, social, economic, environmental, political etc) Group 5) E xamine the responses to the pollution event (short and long term, local, national, international)



https://www.icpdr.org/main/issues/water-pollution http://www.icpdr.org/main/activities-projects/danube-pollution-reduction-programme http://geographicalconcepts.wikispaces.com/Danube+River+-+Toxic+Pollution

Homogenization of landscapes