Positive and negative effects of globalisation

India - a country of contrasts: Two-speed India
Contrasts
UNICEF - contrasts

Holderness coastal erosion

Use the following links to help create your case study sheet on coastal erosion at Holderness on the east coast of Britain.

Spurn Point
Old maps
Mappleton

Solutions to the environmental impacts of globalisation

Use these links to complete your notes on some of the solutions to the environmental impacts of globalisation

–Carbon offsetting
–Biofuels
–Green taxes
–Cutting food miles
–Recycling / reusing / refusing
–Organic food

Event profiles of hazards

Tectonic hazards can be described in terms of their frequency, magnitude, duration and areal extent. Use the following links to complete the worksheet:

Earthquake scales

Richter Scale

Mercalli Scale

Volcanic explosivity index

VEI

Frequency and magnitude

Frequency

Last hour / day / week

TNC - Tesco

Create a case study sheet on Tesco using the folowing headings:

Include:
Brief history of the company
Reasons for growth - what strategy hvae they used to enable their growth?
Statistics about their success
Criticisms - are Tesco guilty of exploitation?
Any other information about the growth of Tesco as a TNC

Then answer this question:
Discuss Tesco's role in development and globalisation around the world (15)

Use some of these sources (and find your own):
Textbook p105-106
Article from The Times May 2011
Tesco - global business
Tesco - corporate responsibility
BBC - growth of Tesco
BBC - growth in Asia

TNC or GDP?

Compare this list of countries GDP and the revenue of the largest companies in the world. Illustrate this information on a diagram.

Create a table of the top 10 largest companies in the world with the headings:

Rank, Name, Industry, Revenue and Country of headquarters

GM crops

Research GM crops using this link. Answer the questions as listed on the web site:

• What are GM foods?


• Are they dangerous?


• Give an example of how food can be changed


• Are there any benefits of GM foods?


• Are GM foods allowed in the UK?