Geography Case Studies Theme 3
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Case Study 13
A Case Study of One Industry: reasons for changing locations and the social, economic impacts of this change. Study at a Local/Regional Scale
Name and Locate: BBC (a tertiary service) moved from London to Manchester, Salford Key, North West England. £232 million move in 2011
65% all TV made in London
25% of licence fee payers from North
8% of TV made in North England
£24 million pay off to staff
BBC spend £13 million a month sending presenters to and from Salford
548 staff made redundant
245 staff hired & 15,000 new jobs created
Case Study 14
A Case Study of One MNC: Reasons for Locating in Countries at Different Stages of Economic Development, and the Local, Regional, or National Economic and Social Affects of these Decisions
Name and Locate: Toyota, MNC, has a factory in Burnaston, 7km from Derby, East Midlands
100 hectares of flat land
Derbyshire council invest £20 million in the site
4000 jobs created in the factory
EU means no import quotas
A50, A38 & M1 more congested
Multiplier effect: 6 Toyota's suppliers moved to area. Created 300 new jobs.
4,700 new houses have been built
Case Study 15
A Case Study at the Local Scale of the Impact of Economic Activity on the Environment: Causes, Effects and Management Strategies
Name and Locate: Rononia, The Amazon Rainforest, Brazil, South America, 23 degrees North and South between Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn
Covers an area of 5.5 million sq miles. By 2030 the Amazon will decrease by 40%
Logging is the economic activity. 80% of logging in Brazil is illegal
Road Construction: Trans-Amazonian highway: 5300km long. 1200km of road built, 10km land cleared on either side.
Changes in climate. 10% of current greenhouse gas emissions is due to deforestation
Aforestation, Selective Logging, Ecotourism
Case Study 17
A Case Study of Trans Boundary Water Issue
Name and Locate: Lesotho, South Africa. A land-locked country.
Due to relief rainfall (moist air from Indian Ocean), Lesotho receives, 1200mm of rainfall per year.
Lesotho Highland Water Project (LHWP) is large-scale water management scheme, completed 2002. Project cost $8 billion funded by world bank.
6 dams and 200km of tunnels which transport water from Lesotho to South Africa have been built.
People with safe drinking water increased from 83% to 87%
Lesotho 50% unemployment rate, 20,000 new jobs created due to roads being built to access dam site.
Dams flooded 1000s hectares of farming land, only 9% of Lesotho's land can be farmed.
Case Study 18
A Case Study of Aid: Need for Aid, Donors and Receiving Countries, Nature of the Aid and it's Effectiveness
Name and Locate: The Sahel, North Africa, Sub Sahara. Covers an area of 3 million sq miles, countries: Mali, Niger and Chad
In 2004 a swarm of locust consumed nearly 100% of crops
In 2006, 5.2 million people were short of food
Sahel has suffered from drought for the last 30 years
Emergency Aid, in 2005 the UK Government gave £3 million to the World Food Programme to help Niger.
Development aid UNICEF opened 245 cereal banks in Niger
Development aid, Oxfam opened 48 primary schools in Niger. In 2004, 4000 children enrolled into school. 18,000 are girls. Ratio books to pupils was 1:5 now 3:5.
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