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Geography
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Geography Case Studies
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Kenya - High population growth
3.9
births per woman
Population
tripled
in
50
years
Russia - Population Decline
2016 Birth
and
death rates
were equal
Bangladesh - Overpopulated
1128
people per km2
Australia - Underpopulated
3
people per km2
USA to Mexico - Migrations
1 in
10
Mexican citizens live in the US
half of them
illegally
France - Pro natalist
After policies population increase of
0.2%
China - Anti Natalist
1.16
births per woman
Men outnumber women by
60
million
Rio De Janeiro - city improvements
14,000
deaths from air pollution
Rocinha has a population of
75,000
$
200
million spent on self help schemes by the
Brazilian
government
Gambia - High dependent population
92
:
100
dependency ratio
Canada - sparsely populated
4
people per km2
Eastern USA - Densely populated
Greater New York
has a population of
19.6
million
Monserrat Soufriere Hill - Volcano
1/3
of island evacuated including largest settlement (
Plymouth
)
Chile - earthquake
8.8
magnitude
500
dead
Cost $
30
billion
Christchurch - Earthquake (MEDC)
7.1 then 6.3 magnitude
2nd earthquake
185
people dead
Ganges
2150km
long
1998
flood
1,000
died
Flood action plan built
5,000
food stores
Holderness Coastline - coastline
erodes at
2m
per year
4.7km
sea wall at
Bridlington
Rock armour
introduced at
Mapleton
Typhoon Haiyan - typhoon
November
2013
70-80
% of buildings destroyed
Category
5
Sonoran desert - desert
32
degrees north
Contains
kangaroo rat
and
saguaro cactus
Danum valley conservation area - conservation area + rainforest
120
mammal
species
In
Borneo
Tata Group - TNC
60
% of revenue generated
outside
India
Ganges Valley - Agricultural system
rice makes up
75
% of the diets in the region
Bangalore - Industrial zone
13
million people
China
- energy supply
22,500
generated by three gorges dam
64% coal, then oil, hydroelectric, gas, nuclear renewables
USA - water problems
1.85 trillion litres
taken from Colorado rivers and given to Arizona due to central Arizona project (CAP)
Pearl
River Delta - Environmental Risk of
Economic
Development
Size of Belgium
27
% of Chinas exports
8
out of every 10 rainfalls were acid rain
40
% of waste water is not treated
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