3.1.3.6 Case studies
Case study of a contrasting coastal landscape beyond the UK to illustrate and analyse how it presents risks and opportunities for human occupation and development and evaluate human responses of resilience, mitigation and adaptation.

This depends on the case-study chosen. For the Sundarbans case-study suggested below, there are clear links to storm hazards.

3.1.5 Hazards
3.1.5.5 Storm hazards
The nature of tropical storms and their underlying causes. Forms of storm hazard: high winds,
storm surges, coastal flooding, river flooding and landslides. Spatial distribution, magnitude,
frequency, regularity, predictability of hazard events.
Impacts: primary/secondary, environmental, social, economic, political. Short and long-term responses: risk management designed to reduce the impacts of the hazard through preparedness, mitigation, prevention and adaptation.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• The locational background to the case-study area.
• Coastal processes and the characteristics of the coastal landforms and landscape.
• The opportunities for human occupation and development.
• The challenges for human occupation and development.
• How humans can respond to the challenges, resilience, mitigation and adaptation.
• The future challenges and opportunities in the case-study area.

Suggested timing
2 hours

3.2.1.1 Globalisation
Dimensions of globalisation: flows of capital, labour, products, services and information; global marketing; patterns of production, distribution and consumption.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• what is meant by the term ‘economies of scale.
• what the significant economic groupings of countries are.
• what the global patterns of production and consumption are.

Suggested timing
2 hours

3.2.2.2.2 Meaning and representation

• Understand how external agencies, including government, corporate bodies and community or local groups, make attempts to influence or create specific place-meanings and thereby shape the actions and behaviours of individuals, groups, businesses and institutions.
• Understand how both past and present processes of development can be seen to influence the social and economic characteristics of places and so be implicit in present meanings.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• What is meant by regeneration and how this might be achieved through the processes of rebranding and re-imaging.
• How the regeneration process may not be in everyones best interests, and that there can be arguments both for and against regenerating places.
• What ‘flagship developments are and how they can form an important part of rebranding.
• An example of an urban rebranding scheme that has been implemented, why and how it was implemented and how successful it has been.

Suggested timing
1 hour