Chapter 12. Biomes


13. How Human Activities Alter Biomes


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Learning objectives


The desert biome: its climate, soils, vegetation and animal life


Case Study 1: Some effects of human activities


in the Amazon rainforests Case Study 2: The impacts of human activities in the Sahel


Chapter Page Learning objectives


14. Views and Models of Development


OPTIONAL UNIT 6: GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE 174


Model 1: the determinist model


Model 2: the modernisation and free enterprise model


Model 3: the centrally planned model A new, better development model?


15. Describing a Divided World


16. Multinational Companies in an


Interdependent Global Economy


182 The three-world model


The two-world model Eurocentric thinking


189


Impacts of MNCs and global trading patterns on producer and consumer regions Study 1: How decisions made in Europe


impacted on US-based MNCs and benefited Ireland


Study 2: Fruit of the Loom Study 3: Wyeth Nutritionals


17. Global Environmental Issues


200 Deforestation Case Study 1: Deforestation in the Amazon Basin


Desertification Case Study 2: Desertification in the Sahel The American ‘Dust Bowl’


18. The Movers 213 Economic migrants in the EU


Political refugees in the EU Case Study: Political refugees from former Yugoslavia Economic migrants in Ireland Political refugees in Ireland Immigration and human rights issues


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Syllabus units


6.1


Syllabus units


7.3 7.4

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