Yr12 Case Studies Summary Notes PDF

# Wildfires - Greece 2023 - Heatwave for 17 days - Many wildfires including in Athens, Corfu and Rhodes - Cost 1.7€6 (225,000 hectares burnt) - 163 people arrested - Budget for combating wildfires doubled (600m) through tax on luxury hotels # Changing Places - Richmond - Green spaces, historical...

# Wildfires - Greece 2023 - Heatwave for 17 days - Many wildfires including in Athens, Corfu and Rhodes - Cost 1.7€6 (225,000 hectares burnt) - 163 people arrested - Budget for combating wildfires doubled (600m) through tax on luxury hotels # Changing Places - Richmond - Green spaces, historical landmarks and affluent residential areas - 5th least densely populated borough - Unemployment 0.4% lower than national average (pop. mostly 35-40) - 85% British - Finance, retail and hospitality are most significant sectors - Above average academically (95% of schools good+ Ofsted) - Strong sense of community (insiders - local events, parks, cultural institutions) - Culture and historical significance (outlanders - desirable to live in and visit) # External forces of Change - Detroit - Heavy manufacturing industries used to be located there - Deindustrialisation → loss of jobs → pop. - 1.5m in 1970 to 680,000 in 2015 - Many parts of city are abandoned - 82% black - Very little tax revenue # Impacts on health - Glasgow - Largest city of Scotland (1.2m pop) - 24% of working adults have a disability - Bad air quality → respiratory health can lead to asthma) → access to good healthcare - Substance abuse → mental and physical health - Human factor - Social inequality which can result in health disparities # Impacts on health - Okinawa - Small population relatively → less urbanisation → more green spaces/biodiversity - Good air quality → less respiratory issues → mental health - Island has small portions and farmers markets are popular - Flat island so people are encouraged to walk + coast # Glaciers - Athabasca - Cold based - In Columbia ice fields, Rocky Mountains - Has shrunk to 238 km from 325km due to climate change (1-3m annual retreat) - Terminal moraine - has been ice-free 100+ years and trees are growing # Glaciers - Helvellyn (Lake District) - Red fain is on the eastern side of the summit - 25+ collies located here and assets # Earthquakes - Haiti 2010 - Mag. 7, 25km away from Port-au-Prince - All 8 hospitals destroyed, 316,000 dead, 86t cost - Primary - 10,000 dead due to cholera outbreak, 4,000 prisoners escaped - Secondary - 25% of government officials dead → hard response - Dominican republic sent aid and made hospitals accessible - 1,500 camps set up in capital, gov. set up cash for work program - World bank cancelled half of debt - Haiti had no plan ready/LIC so capacity to cope - Aid wasted by corrupted gov. # Tropical Cyclones - Hurricane Katrina - Category 5, 2005 New Orleans - 1,500 deaths, looting, flooding → transport networks damaged - $300b cost, agricultural production damaged, sewage systems damaged → pollution # - 27,000 evacuees were housed in the Astrodome, US army deployed there - Predicted 3 days before, 74,000 Red Cross volunteers provided shelter. # Tropical Cyclones- Typhoon Haiyan - One of the most powerful, Philippines 2013 - 4 million people made homeless - 33m coconut trees destroyed, fishing waters damaged by oil leak (oil/erosion) - People were warned to evacuate ~800,000 were - 1,200 evacuation centres set up - Cash for work in Tacloban to rebuild almost destroyed city # Volcanic Eruptions - White Island - Caused by steam (unpredictable) - New Zealand 2019 - 22 deaths - Companies providing island tours stopped, marine life harmed (ash) - 7 helicopters dispatched, no fly zone around eruption - NZ had a rescue plan # Malaria vaccine implantation program - Used in Africa - Reduced cases in children by 39% - Requires U doses to be effective, only for children, funding needed # Multi-hazard zone - Philippines - Convergent plate boundary - 22 active volcanoes + EQs - 5 typhoons per year - Pacific ocean → tsunamis - Landslides (steep topography + high rainfall) - 30% of the bo pop. live within 30km of a volcano - 29% of pop. in poverty - Luzon island earthquake, mag. 7-8 and 1,500 people dead # - Landslide in 2006 on Leyte island, buried a village (rain) - Coast-distributed population → hydrological vulnerability # Random glacier names - Athabasca glacier ~ 350km³ → 238km → 1-3m retreat, cold-based - Helvellya - melted, Red Tarn (corrie) - Franz Joseph Glacier NZ warm based - Victoria Glacier (Antarctica) - cold-based ## Asthma - 250,000 premature deaths globally - Can be caused by bad air quality # Glaciers - Franz Josef Glacier - New Zealand - Warm based - Moves at 4m/day (basal sliding + high rainfall) - Shrunk 1.5m annually