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A-Level Cities in a Sustainable Future (Cluster 3)
whether cities can be both liveable and sustainable, covering how to measure sustainable urban development, managing waste, slums and reimaging, and creating liveable cities for the elderly and for women
What the syllabus expects
- Sustainable urban development has economic vitality, environmental integrity and social well-being as its dimensions
- Relevant indicators are used to track sustainable urban development
- Measuring sustainable urban development is hard because it is difficult to decide which aspects of each dimension to measure and which indicators to pick
- Urban population trends pose challenges to sustainable development, whether through high urbanisation rates and rapid growth or through urban population loss
- Urban areas strain natural environments through concentrated waste, large ecological footprints, and the huge quantities of resources they draw in from surrounding areas
- The strain on natural environments grows when waste is not treated as a potential resource
- Cities also burden the environment of surrounding areas, causing environmental problems there
- Non-hazardous solid waste creates problems in urban areas of countries at different development levels
- How these waste problems affect sustainable urban development
- Strategies for managing non-hazardous solid waste succeed to differing degrees across places
- Why slums develop in urban areas of countries at different development levels
- How the multiple deprivations slum dwellers face affect sustainable urban development
- Strategies to better the lives of slum dwellers achieve varying success across places
- The economic motivations behind urban reimaging efforts
- How urban reimaging affects sustainable urban development
- Urban reimaging strategies achieve varying success across places
- Liveability is subjective, shaped by the place, time and purpose of the assessment
- Economic, environmental and social factors all influence how liveable a place is
- Sustainable urban development and liveability can both reinforce and pull against each other
- The share of elderly residents is rising in urban areas of countries at different development levels
- The economic, social and psychological well-being issues the elderly face living in cities
- Strategies to tackle the issues facing elderly city residents achieve varying success
- Why gender equality matters for making cities more liveable
- The economic, social and psychological well-being issues women face living in cities
- Strategies to address the issues facing women in cities achieve varying success
More A-Level H2 Geography topics
Environment and Resources (Cluster 1) · Development and the Global Economy (Cluster 1) · Tropical Climates and Drainage Basins (Cluster 2) · Landforms in the Tropics (Cluster 2) · The Future with Climate Change (Cluster 3) · Fieldwork (Cluster 4) · all of A-Level H2 Geography