| Syllabus |
AQA A |
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| Agriculture |
Horticulture |
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| Pressure on the urban fringe |
X |
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| Coasts |
Cliff and beach systems |
X |
| Coastal management |
X |
| Halosere vegetation succession |
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| Sand dune vegetation succession and management |
X |
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| Climate |
Forest climates |
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| Shelter belts and wind breaks |
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| Topo-climates |
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| Ecosystems |
Aleppo pine/Evergreen oak climax vegetation |
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| Ecology of urban areas |
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| Halosere vegetation succession |
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| Hydrosere |
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| Maquis/garrigue biome |
X |
| Mediterranean wetlands |
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| National Park management |
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| Plagioclimax |
X |
| Sand dune vegetation succession |
X |
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| Glaciation |
Glaciated landscapes and landforms |
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| Periglacial processes and landforms |
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| Hazards |
Flood and drought hazards and management |
X |
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| Industry |
Industrial change and de-industrialisation |
X |
| Research and development incubators |
X |
| TNCs |
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| Changing pattern of retailing |
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| Limestone landscapes |
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| Rivers |
Channel characteristics |
X |
| Drainage basin management |
X |
| Effects of human activity on fluvial processes |
X |
| Flood hazard and management |
X |
| Fluvial processes and landforms |
X |
| Rainfall-discharge relationships |
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| Rural areas |
Contrasting experiences of semi-rural and extreme rural areas |
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| Managing rural environments |
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| Rural depopulation |
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| Sustainable rural development |
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| Slopes |
Slope processes |
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| Soils |
| Brown earths, gleys, rendzinas and terra rossas |
X |
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| Sport and leisure |
Impact of sport and leisure activities |
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| Tectonics |
Economic benefits of igneous activity |
X |
| Extrusive landforms |
X |
| Tectonic processes and landforms |
X |
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| Tourism |
Intra-national tourism and recreation |
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| National Park management |
X |
| Sustainable tourist development |
X |
| Tourist pressures on coastal environments |
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| Urban |
City planning and development issues |
X |
| Changing pattern of retailing |
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| Ecology of urban areas |
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| Managing urban environments |
X |
| Patterns of urban land use |
X |
| Re-urbanisation |
X |
| Spatial segregation |
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| Sustainable city management |
X |
| Urban change and environmental problems |
X |
| Urban-rural migration, suburbanisation and counterurbanisation |
X |
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Water Resources
|
Irrigation study |
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| Water supply and demand |
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Wilderness environments
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Pressures, conflicts and management |
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| Syllabus |
AQA A |
