OCR A Level Geography - Structural Economic Change Case Study: South Wales

For the OCR A Level Geography specification, this handout details case study information on South Wales to meet the criteria set out in the Changing Spaces Making Places topic of the Human Interactions paper. The content covers structural economic change in the South Wales region, and includes more specific local detail on the planned closure of the Tata Steelworks in Port Talbot. The case study detail covers each of the sections given in the specification in detail (over 30 pages), including maps, statistics, photographs and written text. The specification content included is:
- BEFORE: the demographic, socio-economic, cultural and environmental characteristics of South East Wales before structural economic change
- DURING: the economic change that took place, and the role of the players involved in driving that change
- AFTER: the demographic, socio-economic, cultural and environmental impacts of economic change on people and place
We decided to give out this handout to our students (rather than them researching the information themselves) so that we could spend more time on evaluating the content in the classroom.