Case Studies

Causes:

• East faces Pacific
• Moutainous
• Philippine and Eurasian-Desctuctive

Hazards:

• Mt Pinatubo- 1991
• Guinsagon landslide
• Typhoon Haiyan-2013, C5, after 7.5 earthquake, 1/2m killed

Causes:

• San Andreas fault-conservative
• El Nino

Hazards:

• Northridge earthquake- 1994, LA, 6.7, 57 died
• earthquake lead to Landslide
• Flooding
• Droughts

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Environmental:

• 50% ice melt by 2100- albedo feedback effect
• Permafrost 40%
• Tree line retreatig north 

Ecological:

• UV kills phytoplankton- negative multiplier effect
• Spruce bark beetle-invasive

Social:

• Inuits lose hunting culture
• longer growing season-commercial advantages

55 countries-2/3 amoung poorest

Impacts:

• Water shortage- conflict
• Spread of disease-12.4m at risk of malaria
• Deforestation for cash crops;
• leads to desertification- more droughts;
• less fertile soil-75% subsitent farmers
• erratic weather
• Some areas longer growing periods

Push factors:

• 18.5 % unemployment

Pull factors:

• 5.1% unemployment 
• NHS
• no IO's- EU borders 2004

Positives on UK:

• fill manual labour jobs

On Poland:

• 60% send money home 

Negative on Poland:

• birth rate fallen-slow economic growth

Push factors:

• overcrowding

Pull factors: retire to Spain

• climate-10oc warmer
• property prices lower

Positives on UK:

• reduce affects of ageing pop
• immigration/emmigration balance

On Spain:

• jobs created
• gret pound

Negatives on UK:

• grey pound spent oversea
• loss of childcare 

On Spain:

• little integration 
• for Brits-money runs out