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

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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

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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

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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.

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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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