The Global Shift Creates Winners and Losers for People and the Environment (Edexcel A-Level Geography): Flashcards
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The Global Shift
The Global Shift
Combined impacts of off-shoring & outsourcing
Host country: impact on poverty
Host country: impact on poverty
Reduction in poverty
Host country: unplanned city growth creates
Host country: unplanned city growth creates
Shanty towns from informal expansion
Host country: low wage work issue
Host country: low wage work issue
Sweatshop industries w/ bad working conditions
Source country benefit: pollution
Source country benefit: pollution
Lower levels of industrial pollution
Source country: large scale unemployment cause
Source country: large scale unemployment cause
Deindustrialisation on a large scale
Deindustrialisation
Deindustrialisation
Decline of regionally important manufacturing industries
Health impact: water pollution from waste
Health impact: water pollution from waste
Unsafe drinking water, risk of waterborne disease
Deindustrialisation: contamination issue
Deindustrialisation: contamination issue
Old industry waste leaks into local environment
Host: rapid rural-urban migration leads to
Host: rapid rural-urban migration leads to
Urban sprawl