GEOG Unit 1 – Physical and Human Geography
Core Human Section
– Population Change
- Population indicators – vital rates for countries at different stages of development:
- Population structures at different stages of demographic transition.
- Optimum Population, overpopulation and underpopulation
- Social, economic and political implications of population change
- Attempts to manage population change to achieve sustainable development with reference to Case Studies of countries at different stages of development:
- The way population changes and migration affects the character of rural and urban areas.
- Settlement Case Studies – comparing two (or more) of the following areas:
- An inner city area
- A suburban area
- An area of rural/urban fringe
- An area of rural settlement
- Case Study 1: Newcastle , (Byker, Gosforth (castle ward), Longhorsley)
- Case Study 2: _____________________
- Include reference to characteristics such as:
- Housing
- Ethnicity
- Age structures
- Wealth and employment
- The provision of services
- The implications of the above for social welfare