This revised course is designed to help your students develop the abilities required to achieve exam success for the new WJEC GCSE Geography Specification B.

- Develop students' geographical investigative and analytical skills with activities that use real-place data, maps, photographs and ICT resources
- Provides case studies of real places at different scales and at different levels of development
- Extends students' learning and helps them to research geography in greater depth with 'Going Further' information and activities
- Encourages students to use their understanding of geographical processes and patterns to predict what might happen in the future with 'Geography Futures'

WJEC Specification B is a direct development of the popular Avery Hill course and retains its issue-based, investigative approach to geography. It is based around three themes:

1. Challenges of living in a built environment
2. Physical processes and relationships between people and environment
3. Uneven development and sustainable environments.

Contents

Theme 1 - Challenges of Living in a Built Environment
Chapter 1: Variation in quality of life and access to housing
Chapter 2: Access to services and changing service provision
Chapter 3: Urbanisation
Chapter 4: Planning issues in built environments
Chapter 5: Rural change and planning issues

Theme 2 - Physical Processes and Relationships between People and Environments
Chapter 1: Weather and climate
Chapter 2: Ecosystems
Chapter 3: The issue of desertification
Chapter 4: River processes and landforms
Chapter 5: Coastal processes and coastal management

Theme 3 - Uneven Development and Sustainable Environments
Chapter 1: Employment structures and opportunities
Chapter 2: The location of economic activities
Chapter 3: Economic activity and the environment
Chapter 4: Development
Chapter 5: Development issues and water
Chapter 6: Interdependence

Glossaries also available online at Vocab Express, an interactive learning application.
Visit www.vocabexpress.co.uk/hodder for more information.

This book is part of a book series called Wjg .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 288 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Hodder Education .

Andy Leeder is a senior examiner and Principal Moderator for Controlled Assessment for the WJEC B Specification. Glyn Owen is Head of Geography at Ysgol Morgan Llwyd, Wrexham and Principal Examiner for the WJEC A Specification.

This book has the following chapters: Introduction Theme 1 Challenges of Living in a Built Environment Chapter 1 Variation in quality of life and access to housing Chapter 2 Access to services and changing service provision Chapter 3 Urbanisation Chapter 4 Planning issues in built environments Chapter 5 Rural change and planning issues Theme 2 Physical Processes and Relationships between People and Environments Chapter 1 Weather and climate Chapter 2 Ecosystems Chapter 3 The issue of desertification Chapter 4 River processes and landforms Chapter 5 Coastal processes and coastal management Theme 3 Uneven Development and Sustainable Environments Chapter 1 Employment structures and opportunities Chapter 2 The location of economic activities Chapter 3 Economic activity and the environment Chapter 4 Development Chapter 5 Development issues and water Chapter 6 Interdependence Glossary Index