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Curriculum Relevance
Programme 1 GCSE
- Car manufacturing location - the factors involved.
- Principles of economic development in disadvantaged regions.
- The unfavourable physical and social factors which can lead to emigration and economic decline.
- The 'multiplier effect' of large-scale projects.
Scottish Standard Grade
- Schemes for economic development.
- The viability of manufacturing industry.
- The effects of harsh physical environments.
Programme 2 GCSE
- Hi-tech industrial growth in MEDCs.
- Flexibility of labour within the EU.
- The shifting regional pattern of economic development within Italy - an MEDC.
Scottish Standard Grade
- Factors affecting viability of manufacturing.
- Consequences of economic change.
Programme 3 GCSE
- Coverage of a European country.
GCSE and Scottish Standard Grade
- Physical characteristics of high mountains - distinctive relief and climate in the Alps.
- Importance of glacial landforms and snow cover to winter sports activities.
- The significance of isolation and accessibility in economic development.
- Tourism based on winter sports: the social and environmental costs of success.
Programme 4 GCSE
- Coverage of an EU country.
GCSE and Scottish Standard Grade
- Influence of climate and relief on agricultural development.
- Importance of access to markets and transport costs.
- Traditional life and economic activity in remote regions, and the influence of forces for change.
- Physical and human contrasts between two regions in the same country.
Programme 5 GCSE
- Factors influencing industrial growth, decline and regeneration.
- Regional characteristics within a country.
- Causes and effects of migration.
Scottish Standard Grade
- The viability of manufacturing industry.
- Social and environmental consequences of economic change.
- Population structure.
- Trade as a link with other countries.
Scotland
Standard Grade Geography
May support the Study Themes: The Physical Environment; The Human Environment; International Issues in the UK/ Western Europe Areal Context.
Higher Still Geography
May support:
- Intermediate 1 Geography Mandatory Unit: People and the Environment: Europe.
- Intermediate 2 Geography Mandatory Unit: People and the Environment: Europe.
- Higher Geography Mandatory Unit 1: Geography: Core (H) – Physical.
- Higher Geography Mandatory Unit 1: Geography: Core (H) – Human: (a) Population geography; (b) Rural geography; (c) Industrial geography; (d) Urban geography.
- Higher Geography Mandatory Unit 2: Geography: Applications (H), in particular: Group 2 Application (d) Urban change and its management – areal context – two urban concentrations – one from a developed country; (e) European regional inequalities – aerial context – European Union with particular reference to two of its member states, one of which must be the United Kingdom.
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