| Give the 4 pull and push factors of Rapid urbanisation in LIDCs. | Push factors: 1)Natural disasters
2)Mechanisation of farming
3)Drought
3)Conflict
Pull Factors: 1)More jobs
2)Education
3)Family reunion
4)Better quality of life |
| What are the 3 economic consequences of rapid urbanisation? | 1)High levels of unemployment
2)People in informal employment get underpayed and jobs aren't taxed so economy stunted
3)People cant get jobs because they weren't educated |
| What are the social consequences of rapid urbanisation? | 1)Arent enough houses so people end up in squatter settlements
2)Infastrucure cant be built to keep up so people dont have access to basic services
3)High crime rate |
| What are the environmental consequences of rapid urbanisation? | 1)Heaps of rubbish sometimes toxic
2)Sewage and toxic chemicals get into rivers damaging habitats
3)Congestion |
| Describe the housing availability in London. | 1)Supply cant meet demand so price rising
2)Average rent double uk average
3)Many have to live away from work or share homes |
| Describe the transport provision in London | 1)Frequent congestion 8mph 7am-pm in central
2)1million train passengers daily
3)delays due to overcrowding double 2013-15 |
| Describe the inequality in London. | 1)Kensington and Chelsea £130k+ Newham £35k
2)25% in poverty
3)Unhealthy lifestyle in poor areas 5yrs lower than wealthier |
| Give the 4 physical factors influencing development | 1)poor climate-reduced crop yield-malnutrition-less money-less tax
2)few natural resourses-less money or not infastructure to exploit resource
3)poor location-landlocked expensice export and import
4)natural hazards-death and destruction-money spent rebuilding |
| Give the 2 human factors influencing development. | 1)Conflict-infant mortality and health-money spent on arms and repairing damage
2)Debt-too poor to pay back |
| For an LIDC country you've studied, explain how international trade has influenced its development. | 1)DRC - internationally traded minerals coltan and wolframite with tech companies and diamonds and gold with jewlery companies such as Banro corp.
2)high population of over 79 million so demand for food and water very high - country at risk of trade deficit due to the increase of demand
3) benifits of trade - grew economy 7% from 2010-12 improving standards of living, establishing links countries more likely to invest
problems of trade - due to reliance on primary goods, economy vulnerable due to falling prices 2008-9 , reliance on improting manufactured goods-vulnerable to increase prices, demand for minerals leads to uncontrolled exploitation and violation |
| Explain a top down development in drc. | 1)Grand Inga dam congo river 2017-$80bil-world bank & African development bank
2)Advantage-cheap clean energy, jobs
3)Disadvantage-risk lost money to corrupt oficial-hard for rural to recieve energy-flooding relocates 30k people |
| Analyse the success of one attempt to achieve food security at a national scale. | In the UK
1)GM crops - more food, smaller area, fewer resources
2)higher yield, resistance to drought, disease, pest
3)Pros - more nutritious food, environmental - less artificial chemicals, economic - cheaper - 70% of grocery store crops are gm
Cons - reduce biodiversity, interbreed wild plants disrupting ecosystem |
