A-Level Geography Case Studies List
Water and Carbon Cycle
Amazon Rainforest
River Thames (Local)
River Exe (River Catchment)
California Drought 2012-16 (Factors affecting Changes in Water Cycle, Human Activities + Natural Causes of Drought)
Coastal Systems and Landscapes
Holderness (Including Flamborough Head and Spurn Head Spit) – Mass Movement – Different Coastal Landforms
Isle of Purbeck (Coastal Landforms)
Estuarine Environment in UK (Essex) or Beyond UK (Saltmarshes in USA) – Coastal Depositional Environment
Slapton, Devon (Sediment Cells, Barrier Beach – Coastal Depositional Landform) – Human Intervention at the Coast (Coastal
Management)
2004 Boxing Day Tsunami (Sea Level Change due to Tectonic Activity)
Tuvala (Impacts of Climate Change and Adapting)
Odisha, India (Contrasting Coastal Landscape)
Hazards
Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland 2010 (Impacts, Human Response)
Port-au-Prince Earthquake, Haiti 2010 (Impacts, Human Response)
Typhoon Haiyan (Impacts and Response)
Philippines – Multi-Hazardous Environment beyond UK (Impacts and Response)
Kobe, Japan – Local Scale of a Specified Place in a Hazardous Setting
Hurricane Sandy 2012 – Storm Hazard
Global Governance and Global Systems
Malaysia – Newly Industrialised Country
Banana Trade War between USA and EU
Cash Crops (Bananas) and their World Trade – Trading Relationships and Conflicts
Nike – TNC and their Spatial Organisation, Production Processes and the Social, Economic and Environmental Impacts on the
countries they operate
Antarctica
Changing Places
Egham (Local)
Contrasting Place Study (UK) Stratford (East London)
Contrasting Place Study (Distant) Dharavi (India)
Resource Security
Alaska (Resource Frontiers at Various Scales)
China’s South-North Water Transfer Project (Large-Scale Water Transfer Project, Strategies to Increase Water Supply and
Increase Water Security)
Aswan High Dam, Egypt (Environmental Impacts of a Major Water Supply Scheme)
California
Local - Dafur, Sudan, National – California, International – River Nile (Water Conflicts at Various Scales)
China and 2 others (Energy Demand, Energy Mix and Energy Supply, Energy Security)
Baku – Large Scale Oil Industry
Alaska’s North Slope Oil Fields and Trans-Alaska Pipeline – Environmental Impacts of a Major Energy Resource Development,
Effects of Physical Environment on the Oil Exploitation Industry)
Water and Carbon Cycle
Amazon Rainforest
River Thames (Local)
River Exe (River Catchment)
California Drought 2012-16 (Factors affecting Changes in Water Cycle, Human Activities + Natural Causes of Drought)
Coastal Systems and Landscapes
Holderness (Including Flamborough Head and Spurn Head Spit) – Mass Movement – Different Coastal Landforms
Isle of Purbeck (Coastal Landforms)
Estuarine Environment in UK (Essex) or Beyond UK (Saltmarshes in USA) – Coastal Depositional Environment
Slapton, Devon (Sediment Cells, Barrier Beach – Coastal Depositional Landform) – Human Intervention at the Coast (Coastal
Management)
2004 Boxing Day Tsunami (Sea Level Change due to Tectonic Activity)
Tuvala (Impacts of Climate Change and Adapting)
Odisha, India (Contrasting Coastal Landscape)
Hazards
Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland 2010 (Impacts, Human Response)
Port-au-Prince Earthquake, Haiti 2010 (Impacts, Human Response)
Typhoon Haiyan (Impacts and Response)
Philippines – Multi-Hazardous Environment beyond UK (Impacts and Response)
Kobe, Japan – Local Scale of a Specified Place in a Hazardous Setting
Hurricane Sandy 2012 – Storm Hazard
Global Governance and Global Systems
Malaysia – Newly Industrialised Country
Banana Trade War between USA and EU
Cash Crops (Bananas) and their World Trade – Trading Relationships and Conflicts
Nike – TNC and their Spatial Organisation, Production Processes and the Social, Economic and Environmental Impacts on the
countries they operate
Antarctica
Changing Places
Egham (Local)
Contrasting Place Study (UK) Stratford (East London)
Contrasting Place Study (Distant) Dharavi (India)
Resource Security
Alaska (Resource Frontiers at Various Scales)
China’s South-North Water Transfer Project (Large-Scale Water Transfer Project, Strategies to Increase Water Supply and
Increase Water Security)
Aswan High Dam, Egypt (Environmental Impacts of a Major Water Supply Scheme)
California
Local - Dafur, Sudan, National – California, International – River Nile (Water Conflicts at Various Scales)
China and 2 others (Energy Demand, Energy Mix and Energy Supply, Energy Security)
Baku – Large Scale Oil Industry
Alaska’s North Slope Oil Fields and Trans-Alaska Pipeline – Environmental Impacts of a Major Energy Resource Development,
Effects of Physical Environment on the Oil Exploitation Industry)
