Field Studies Availability Checklist: AQA B

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

Water Resources

 

Irrigation study  
Water supply and demand  
 
 

Wilderness environments

 

Pressures, conflicts and management  
 
 Syllabus AQA B
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