REVISION Flashcards
Climate change
a change in global or regional climate patterns
Enhanced greenhouse effect
Name given to warming of climate to mans actions
Impacts of climate change
Sea levels rising, Drought, flooding and famine
Evidence
Higher levels of rainfall
Increased temp
Melting of ice
responses to climate change
Reduction in the rate of deforestation
An increase in efficiency of energy production and use
Science says
Scientist fear that global climate change will result in widespread environmental, social and economic dislocation.
Development
A process of change that involves an improvement in quality of life as seen by people undergoing change
Third World
Most common term still used today
Two Third world
How much of the worlds population lives in non-western parts of the world
Majority world
Vast majority of people living in the world reside in those countries
Indicators
Life expectancy, Literacy rates and fertility rates
GNI Per capita Not good
Doesn’t provide anything about peoples way of life.
Internal factors influencing development
Climate, Foreign investment, political instability, corruption
External factors influencing development
Global instability, high debt dependance, trade and manufacturing
Solutions ot inequality
UN sustainability goals, Local grass root organisations
