Edexcel A-Level Geography PAPER 2 - Globalisation EQ2 Revision Work Booklet

Edexcel A-Level Geography Globalisation EQ2 Revision Work Booklet

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3.4 The impact of global shift on people and the environment

• What is the global shift?
• What factors accelerated the global shift?
• Problems of the global shift
• Costs and Benefits of the global shift on Asia
• Costs and Benefits of outsourcing to Asia
• Environmental challenges for developing countries
• Social challenges for developing countries
• Deindustrialisation and spiral of decline
• Rustbelt region
• Detroit and spiral of decline

3.5 The increasing scale and pace of economic migration in an interconnected world

• Types of migrants
• Megacities
• Rural to urban migration
• Push and Pull factors
• Sustainable development
• Global hub
• Migration - low waged international migrants, elite international migrants, internal migrants
• Host and Source countries - benefits and costs

3.6 The emergence of a global culture

• Culture, cultural traits, cultural diffusion, cultural imperialism
• Soft power, Americanisation, Westernisation
• Causes of a global culture
• Diets changing in China
• Changing diets impact on the environment
• Hyperglobalisation
• Cost of cultural erosion
• Preserving culture
• Groups against Globalisation