Topics such as climate change, sustainabiity and hazards are now regularly in the news, and emphasise the important role of geography in all our lives. The courses, as a result, concentrate on the links between human and physical geography. Why, for example, do people continue to build on flood plains or in areas prone to hurricanes or earthquakes, and how is human activity affecting the climate? The syllabus also looks at many older controversies such as the link between population and food supply (Malthus, 1798) or the role of people in desertification, the expansion of deserts in semi-arid areas. Geography is, therefore, a very wide ranging topic, and can be linked to both arts and science subjects at AS/A2 level, and at University where it can be studied either as a BSc or BA.
