real life examples

• 7 Sisters Country Park management of a rural area

  • tree screen around car park
  • no bins policy
• London as a global city: challenges: housing

  3x national average
• London as a global city: challenges: transport

  • Travel card zones 1-5 £15
  • overcrowding and expensive
• London as a global city: challenges:waste

  • 75 Eiffel towers weight of waste every year
  • only 34% recycles
• London as a global city: solutions: housing

  • 13,000 new homes in Newham
  • Olympic village converted to new homes
• London as a global city: solutions: transport

  • Boris bikes – hire from £2 a day
• London as a global city: solutions: waste

  • Aim: no recyclable waste to enter landfill by 2030
• Mumbai as a global city: challenges: housing

  • Dharavi – 3m in informal housing
• Mumbai as a global city: challenges: transport

  • 9 people die every day on trains
• Mumbai as a global city: challenges: waste

  • 73% food waste
• Mumbai as a global city: solutions: housing

  • Bhendi Bazaar – sustainable homes
  • Slum clearance and self help schemes
• Mumbai as a global city: solutions: transport

  • Add doors to trains
• Mumbai as a global city: solutions: waste

  • Ragpicker: recycle 80% of waste
• India as an NIC

  • 2 nd largest English speaking country in world
  • GDP has grown by 7% / year
• What the UK trades with other countries

  • UK – exports cars and medicines and imports tobacco and coffee from Malawi
  • UK imports petrol from India
• Coca Cola - Consequences of an MNC on a NIC/ LIC

  • 6,000 new jobs in India
• Tata - Consequences of an MNC on UK

  • Taken over Tetley and Jaguar
• Trade group (Kuapa Kokoo)

  • 10% premium on Divine chocolate
  • 20,000 farmers joined group
• Emergency aid: Cyclone Idai

  • 1300 deaths
  • 9,000 cholera cases
• Development aid: Farm Africa/ CAMFED

  • £10 – provides books and equipment
• Effects of globalisation on an HIC (UK)

  • Knowledge economy – jobs in high skilled industries such as Google
• Effects of globalisation on an LIC (Malawi)

  • Homogenisation: wearing brands such as Nike
• UK Climate 


  • 4 seasons
  • Range of temp – 14 degrees
  • Rain all year (1300mm)
  • West wetter than east
• Semi Arid Climate

  • 6 months little to no rain
  • Less than 500mm rain / year
  • Range of temp 9 degrees
  • 2 seasons
• Equatorial Climate

  • 1 season
  • 2000mm rain a year
  • Small range temp 3 degrees
  • Average temp 28 degrees
• Extreme low pressure weather event: Cyclone Idai

  1.2m ha farmland lost 400,000 homeless
• Extreme high pressure weather event outside the UK: Drought in Europe 2018 (Greece)

  • 150,000 premature deaths from heatstroke
  • 2bn damage to crops etc