Verity T’s Geogpods: Recent Episodes
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Diving in deeper to a specific strategy to reduce the develop gap through the case study of Jamaica
Seeing ways the development gap between countries and be shortened and looking at previous examples of this
Looking at why some countries are more developed than others under the 3 headings of Physical Causes, Economic Causes and Historical Causes and then understanding the effects all of this can have
Understanding what a population pyramid is, what it shows us and the usual shape of it for a NEE country and a HIC country
Firstly looking at what the DTM is and how it is very much linked to the development of a country
Giving examples of HICs, NEEs and LICs as measured by the HDI and looking further into how useful the HDI actually is
Looking at ways stakeholders try to be as sustainable as possible and investigating how the city of Freiburg, Germany is so sustainable
Looking in more depth at how a Brownfield site in Bristol has been regenerated to appeal to the public and have more sustainable uses
Seeing how waste in landfill in Bristol has decreased over the years and how recycled waste has gone up while also looking at projects like the eco-friendly ‘poo bus’ that help Bristol become a cleaner environment
How Bristol is changing and how the changed population offers social and economic opportunities
Moving on from Lagos to the UK and looking at population change and distribution across the United Kingdom
Looking at how crime, waste disposal, air/water pollution and traffic congestion prove as challenges of urban growth in Lagos
The social, economic and environmental issues Lagos faces with its rapidly growing urban population
Why Lagos creates social opportunities due to urban growth and why that further pulls people into Lagos
Urban vs Rural. What natural increase/decrease and how to figure it out. Push and pull factors of a place.
Understanding more about each of the 11 major biomes of the earth and gaining further knowledge of what effects where a biome is
Understanding what an ecosystem is and understanding key words and what different roles are in food chains and food webs of these ecosystems.
To understand that for us to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere we need to look increasingly towards renewable energy
Looking at how countries use energy and how we use energy and what different types of energy there is.
Looking at a specific type of farming which could prevent future worldwide food insecurity.
Explaining why different countries have different water resources and accessibility to water.
How plastic gets into the environment and the effect it has on the environment once in it.
Understanding the likely scenarios of what the future climate may be like and understanding how hard it is to make these predictions
Talking about the six main natural causes of climate change; sunspots; eccentricity; axial tilt; asteroids; volcanic eruptions.
The new topic is climate change and and this podcast is about how climates have changed over the years and to see how we can recognise these changes
Describing what a tropical storm is. Explaining how they are formed. Talking about where they are commonly
Talks about how scientists and other specialists reduce the risk of sudden hazardous tectonic plate movement
Why people live by volcanoes and what the hazards are. There are more reasons why people live by volcanoes- I only listed a very few