The document outlines the AS and A2 Geography curriculum for 2008, including unit topics, assessments, and sample exam questions. The AS course covers global challenges such as natural hazards and globalization, as well as geographical investigations like crowded coasts and place branding. The A2 course examines contested planet issues like resource use, biodiversity loss, and development gaps. Students take exams involving data responses, essays, and research questions.
14. Rebranding Places Geographical Investigations “ Choose smog, choose an inefficient transport system, choose congestion charging and Ken Livingstone, choose paying for the Olympics through your council tax, choose walking halfway across London because Cannon Street tube shuts at weekends, choose cramming on to a train at London Bridge every night, choose expensive drinks and entrance fees, choose renting a house, choose annoying celebrity voices in lifts, choose tramps and beggars on every corner, choose pigeons, crowds and ****** tourists, choose having to force yourself every day not to jump in the Thames, choose wobbly bridges and night buses, choose life, choose London !”
21. Topic 1: Energy security Topic 2: Water conflicts Topic 3: Biodiversity under threat Topic 4: Superpower geographies Topic 5: Bridging the development gap Topic 6: The technological fix?
23. Topic 2: Water conflicts South Africa's demand for freshwater will exceed its supply by 2025 1.1 billion people lack access to clean water 2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitation
