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To resource the ‘People as Consumers’ theme, you will need geographical sources from a variety of media and at a variety of scales. This section illustrates how articles from the RGS-IBG Geography in the News website can be used as a part of this work.
The specification
Through this unit candidates are asked to consider how consumer choices impact on the implications, places and environments. The unit uses the lens of scale to explore how geographers’ spatial understandings take on a different emphasis at different scales. For example, studying a shopping centre demands the use of a variety of resources and stimuli. At the local scale these are likely to be different to those needed for a global analysis. But, as with other themes, the emphasis should be on supporting candidates to think geographically by offering activities at a variety of scales.
Two sections in the Teachers’ Resource Guide supports this unit - see pages 15-16 and 29-30.
Conceptual emphasis
This unit draws on all five concepts: uneven development, interdependence, globalisation, sustainability and futures.
Particular articles on the RGS-IBG Geography in the Geography in the News and the reasons for using them are shown below.
| Article | Date | Issues/concepts | Notes |
| Samsung swansong | 16 Jan 2004 | Impact of consumer choices | A good example of how scale can be used to access the geographical analysis of the issue. The ‘What’s this got to do with me?’ from the Teachers’ Resource Guide can be used to support candidates in reading this text. |
| Supermarket expansion is a mezzanine | 05 Feb 2004 | Consumer landscapes | Leads into planning control and regulations. It is likely that this story is replicated in localities across the UK. The article considers impacts beyond the local. |
| Last Orders | 16 Apr 2004 | The impact of a global production and consumption network | The relocation of Guinness’ manufacturing base from London provides an in-depth study of production and consumption, and the consequences of decisions made on both landscapes and people. |
| Fair Aid | 09 Mar 2004 | A controversial look at the aid/trade debate. This could stimulate some useful work on rights and responsibilities | Based on an article that first appeared in The Independent, and drawn from a speech by Richard Dowden (Director of the Royal African Society) who suggested that ‘the development of peoples, of societies, can only be done by those people themselves. It cannot be done by outsiders.’ |
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