Roadmap
Common geographical skills
Shared geographical skills
Appendix 4 - Maps, coordinates and landscape evidence
Appendix 4 - Relief, transects and GIS evidence
Appendix 4, Appendix 6 - Choosing and constructing data displays
Appendix 4, Appendix 6 - Reading specialist geographical graphs
Appendix 4 - Ratios, percentages and hazard scales
Appendix 4 - Summarising data and judging relationships
Appendix 5, Appendix 6, Appendix 7 - Planning enquiries and evaluating evidence
Paper 1: Physical geography
Topic 1: River environments
1.1 - Water cycle and drainage basins
1.1 - River regimes and storm hydrographs
1.2 - River processes and downstream changes
1.2 - Upland and lowland river landforms
1.3 - Water demand, quality and supply
1.3 - River flooding and its management
Topic 2: Coastal environments
2.1 - Coastal processes and their controls
2.1 - Erosional and depositional coastal landforms
2.2 - Coastal ecosystems and their threats
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2.3 - Coastal flooding and management strategies
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2.3 - Coastal management in the UK and Bangladesh
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Topic 3: Hazardous environments
3.1 - Tectonic hazard patterns, causes and measurement
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3.1 - Tropical cyclone formation and measurement
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3.2 - Hazard vulnerability and contrasting impacts
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3.2, 3.3 - Japan and Nepal earthquakes: preparation and relief
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3.3 - Japan and Nepal earthquakes: rebuilding resilience
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River fieldwork
1.4 - River fieldwork: planning and measurement
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1.4 - River fieldwork: analysing channel evidence
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Coastal fieldwork
1.4 - Coastal fieldwork: planning and measurement
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1.4 - Coastal fieldwork: analysing sediment and profiles
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Hazard fieldwork
1.4 - Hazard fieldwork: weather diaries and risk maps
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1.4 - Hazard fieldwork: analysing extreme-weather evidence
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Paper 2: Human geography
Topic 4: Economic activity and energy
4.1 - Economic sectors, location and change
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4.2 - Sector shifts and informal work
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4.2 - Population, resources and competing theories
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4.3 - Energy demand, supply and the energy mix
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4.3 - Managing energy sustainably in the UK and India
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Topic 5: Rural environments
5.1 - Biomes and ecosystem goods and services
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5.1 - Farming systems and ecosystem change
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5.2 - Rural change in Cumbria and Bihar
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5.3 - Farm diversification and changing rural incomes
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5.3 - Sustainable rural management in Cumbria and Bihar
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Topic 6: Urban environments
6.1 - Urbanisation, megacities and rapid growth
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6.2 - Urban land use, accessibility and land values
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6.2 - Urban challenges in London and Mumbai
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6.3 - The rural-urban fringe and development choices
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6.3 - Sustainable urban management in London and Mumbai
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Energy fieldwork
2.4 - Energy fieldwork: surveys of changing energy use
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2.4 - Energy fieldwork: evaluating change and impacts
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Rural fieldwork
2.4 - Rural fieldwork: investigating changing places
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2.4 - Rural fieldwork: explaining change and competing views
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Urban fieldwork
2.4 - Urban fieldwork: investigating central and inner areas
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2.4 - Urban fieldwork: evaluating regeneration evidence
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Topic 7: Fragile environments and climate change
7.1, 7.2, 7.3 - Drylands, desertification and water security
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7.1, 7.2, 7.3 - Rainforests, deforestation and sustainable management
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7.1 - Natural climate change and the enhanced greenhouse effect
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7.2, 7.3 - Climate impacts and responses in the UK and Bangladesh
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Topic 8: Globalisation and migration
8.1, 8.2 - Commodity chains, global institutions and unequal gains
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8.1, 8.2 - Migration patterns, motives and impacts
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8.3 - Geopolitical relationships and managing UK migration
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8.2, 8.3 - Tourism impacts and sustainable tourism in the UK and Kenya
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Topic 9: Development and human welfare
9.1 - Defining, measuring and explaining development
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9.2 - Uneven development and welfare in India
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9.2 - Development, demographic change and population structures
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9.3 - Development strategies and projects in the UK and India
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