Human Fieldwork Flashcards
What was the aim of the study
To asses the impacts of tourism on grasmere, an upland glaciated area in the Lake District national park
Why was Grasmere chosen?
It’s a small place that we can survey in one afternoon
It has a glaciated environment
It is a honey pot site, so we knew there would be tourists there.
What is the site (land) Graemere is on and what is the situation nearby?
Site: flat land, wide valley floor on River rothway
Situation: surrounded by steep slopes of the Ushaped valley situated near lake grasmere. Overlooked by helm crag. Very near to A951 main road through Lake District.
What were the 3 methods of data collection
Land use survey
Foot path survey
Questionnaire
What was the method for land use survey?
Map of all buildings in grasmere and so as we passed though the area we noted down on the map using a key which buildings were shops cafes hotels houses and the areas which were open spaces.
What were the justifications of land use survey?
tells us how much land is being used for tourists and how much for residents- shows whether honey pot site and whether it caters well for tourists.
What were the limitations of the land use survey?
Only able to record what was seen on ground floor of building and we could not possibly and did not cover all of the areas in grasmere.
What were the risk assessments? (3)
- Very busy, lots of cars and traffic, so when crossing roads we looked both ways, found safest areas to cross in.
E.g. Pedestrian crossing no blind corners.
Risk being run over by car- injured or killed - Had teachers phone number made sure we knew what times to be back to bus so no one left behind. Teachers did head counts
- Stay together in 3s so don’t get lost
What were the 3 data presentation techniques?
Land use: mapping
Footpath: cross section
Questionnaire data: bar and pie charts
What were the positives and negatives of land use mapping?
P
easy to read and see what was dominant land use. Shows size of area of land use and not just from tally.
N
Can only represent ground floor of buildings- ground floor which may have different use which is not shown.
What were the positives and negatives of footpath cross section?
P
Good visual tool to see shape of foot path, can easily see which part of footpath had greatest erosion.
Suitable representation for one site
Quick and easy to draw and to spot change within depth across footpath
N
Doesn’t show difference along whole section- to see changes across a large section of a footpath you need to draw lots of gross sections which is time consuming
What were the positives and negatives of the pie chats and bar charts
P
Easy to read and colours can easily represent categories, can also label % for detail
N
Only gives proportion and not actual numbers so cannot judge reliability of data (which is based upon number of questionnaires)
