Online Geography Resources

Base knowledge and understanding

Context

The aims of this lesson:

• To be able to examine the opportunities and challenges posed by the development of tourism and any associated settlement and communications in one type of extreme environment - focusing upon the alpine ski industry in high mountain, glacial environments.
• Examine the impacts of tourism on the environment, such as mass movements and erosion, land degradation, vulnerability to hazards, aesthetic change, water usage and waste disposal.

Task One: Challenge task

Task Two: Opportunities and Challenges: Two Degrees from Meltdown - The Final Call

Task Three: Opportunities: Money and Development

• The international arrivals in the Alps may add up to about 30 million, or a little less than 4% of world’s total number (806.8 million in 2005) and almost 7% of the European ones. [Source]

Task Four: Challenges: Mass Movements / Avalanche Hazard

Task Five: Challenges: Aesthetic Change

Task Six: Challenges: Water Usage

Task Seven: Challenges: Waste Disposal

Review

Discuss the main environmental problems caused by tourism in one extreme environment. [10 Marks]

The markbands can be found here - you need to look at Paper 2.