AS Geography - DTM Validity.

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  • Created on: 01-04-13 18:43

AS Geogroahy - DTM Validity.

Advantages

  • Dynamic - showing change through time.
  • Describes what happened in the UK.
  • Other countries ( N.America/Eurpoe) go through similar phases as they industrialised.
  • Newly industrialised countires (NICs) - Sigapore/S.Korea, also repeat similar phases. (faster)
  • Explains what happened and why in the particular sequence.

Disadvantages

  • Not relevant to non-industrialising countries.
  • Stage 2 followed from Industrialisation (not true for other countries, factors causing decreasing DR - better medical care/sanitation etc)
  • Stage 3 perhaps longer for some countries. (Stage 3 held back by the populations attitudes to family size, birth control, status and religion) - Chin'a One Child Policy.
  • Stage 5 added (W.Europe/Japan late 20th Century)
  • Countries slipping back into Stage 1 (Africa - DR increase - HIV/AIDs) DTM doesn't predict future for these countries.

Evaluation

The DTM serves its purpose for giving a generic interpretation to Britains phases through the stages. Undouabtly the DTM has some validity as other coutries similar to the UK are following suit. However countries which are less developed and haven't gone through their industrialisation phase, are unable to fit into the DTM. Following this, for countries who have slipped back into the early stages, it is hard to determine from the DTM how they will recover.

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