Examines the interconnections between people and places through the products people buy and the effects of their production on the places that make them. The effects of transport and ICT are also examined. Case studies: Australia and other countries.
The animated graphics below show how the number of planes in the sky has changed over the course of the past couple of months as the coronavirus crisis has deepened. The difference is stark, but keep in mind the graphics are not real-time representations of air traffic and do not display every single flight in Australian skies.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Good study of the changes to interconnections through coronavirus
The outbreak has been a gift to nativist nationalists and protectionists, and it is likely to have a long-term impact on the free movement of…
Much of this disruption may be temporary. But the coronavirus crisis is likely to have a lasting impact, especially when it reinforces other trends that are already undermining globalization. It may deal a blow to fragmented international supply chains, reduce the hypermobility of global business travelers, and provide political fodder for nationalists who favor greater protectionism and immigration controls.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Excellent article looking forward from Coronavirus, at the breadth od world trade.
The coronavirus has torpedoed the world economy, with travel both a vector for – and a victim of – an historic event that appears to have no end in sight.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Tourism has driven enormous and increasing interaction over the past 30 years. Now it has crashed. What are the impacts of this and what will be the outcomes?
As the Impacts of Coronavirus Grow, Micromobility Fills in the Gaps At the time of this writing, COVID-19 is disrupting peoples’ daily lives in many ways, including restricting daily travel, from optional work-from-home arrangements to complete shutdowns. While the most common advice remains to limit travel, having reliable, affordable choices for that travel matters now more than ever. New York City is adding more space for cyclists, and micromobility users, to support the sudden shift to small individual transport modes on their streets. Bogotá, Colombia has added 76 kilometers of cycle lanes practically overnight to accommodate more riders and social
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Transport interconnections are a good study at present, with possible local area fieldwork related to this.
Regulations hope to tackle products that are are bought, used briefly, then binned.
The regulations will apply to a range of everyday items such as mobile phones, textiles, electronics, batteries, construction and packaging. They will ensure products are designed and manufactured so they last - and so they're repairable if they go wrong. It should mean that your phone lasts longer and proves easier to fix.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Interconnections of resource use and waste are really important and relevant to this study - check #recycling
The number of flights to and from Australia has fallen by a fifth over the past six weeks as the coronavirus outbreak shatters travel demand and threatens the global airline industry.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
So this was the start - what an excellent study of interconnections COVID_19 is! A frightening one though!
People sometimes release pets into the wild, resulting in biological invasions.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
The CITES agreement regulates (and sometimes bans) trade in endangered species, however, many "pets" are still traded in huge numbers. Who buys and who sells? What do the creatures suffer?
The novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China in late 2019, and took only a few months to spread into a global pandemic. Health experts say modern advanced transport including air travel has greatly increased the pace of the pandemic. Though governments around the world imposed lockdowns, isolations and quarantines for travellers, such measures also had a devastating impact on the global economy and many industries including aviation. Airline tracking site Flight Radar 24 documented a massive reduction in the number of aircraft flying around the world, and the International Air Transport Association predicts that air traffic in 2020 may fall by at least 38 per cent. What do the numbers tell us about the future for global aviation?
Ocean shipping is the primary mode of international trade. This map identifies maritime choke points that pose a risk to this complex logistic network.
Victoria's public transport will lose 114 million yearly trips post-pandemic, and city roads face worsening congestion as infection-wary commuters desert the network in favour of their cars.
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Sailor and maritime vlogger JeffHK has created an incredible 4K timelapse video of a cargo ship making a 30 day journey at sea. Jeff documented the trip,
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Fashion accounts for around 10% of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, but there are ways to reduce the impact your wardrobe has on the climate.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Interaction in several ways - trade, climate change, economies, employment and danger to workers. unit in Resources section of GTAV. Excellent explanation
The Sahara Desert is a near-uninterrupted brown band of sand and scrub across the northern third of Africa. The Amazon rain forest is a dense green mass of humid jungle that covers northeast South America. But after strong winds sweep across the Sahara, a tan cloud rises in the air, stretches between the continents, and ties together the desert and the jungle. It’s dust. And lots of it.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
An unusual interconnection works well with a study of global systems such as El Nino
The world’s trading routes have been crafted over centuries and yet remain in a constant state of flux. Made on Earth looks at eight everyday products – from bicycles to whisky, spices to semiconductors – and explores the people, countries and intricate global networks that go into making and bringing these goods to market
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Such a brilliant video study of 8 major trade systems... a must for interconnections! BBC video at its best!
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