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Specification content Subject specific skills development Learning outcomes Suggested learning activities (including ref to differentiation and extension activities) Resources Urban physical waste generation: sources of waste – industrial and commercial activity, personal consumption. Relation of waste components and waste streams to economic characteristics, lifestyles and attitudes. The environmental impacts of alternative approaches to waste disposal: unregulated, recycling, recovery, reduction (incineration), burial, submergence, trade. Comparison of incineration and landfill approaches to waste disposal in relation to a specified urban area. Collect, analyse and interpret information, and demonstrate the ability to understand and suitable analytical approaches for the different information types. Describe the different sources of waste and recognise that both quantities of waste produced and waste disposal methods vary according to economic development. Describe and evaluate a of waste disposal methods. Compare and contrast incineration and landfill approaches to waste in a specified urban area. What are the different sources of urban waste? Discuss how and why waste production varies across the world. Investigate and evaluate the different strategies for dealing with urban waste. Students could research waste from the point of view of different stakeholders. Feedback could then take the form of a debate/roleplay, or construction of SWOT analysis in groups. Online research of case study which allows the comparison of incineration and landfill approaches to waste disposal in relation to a specified urban area. Many urban waste centres now offer educational visits – it is worth looking at this option. The World Bank is a useful source for J, ‘Managing urban waste’ in Topic Eye changing cities, 2012 Article on waste disposal in Taiwan by Chris Fitch, ‘A new lease of life’ Geographical, 2015 Wheeler P, ‘Recycling costs and benefits’ GeoFile 752, 2016 Bennett P, ‘Sustainable waste management in the West Midlands’ GeoActive 496, 2013 Eddis T, ‘Managament of waste in cities: a DME’ GeoFile 548, 2007 are lots of resources about the world’s first offshore landfill in Singapore called The NGO Practical Action has some useful resources on . Week 8
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