Edexcel IAL Geography Knowledge Organiser – Going Global (Unit 1 Topic 2)

A detailed two-page knowledge organiser covering the whole Going Global topic for Edexcel International A Level Geography. It has been checked line by line against the specification.

Page 1 – Globalisation:

What globalisation is, and how it is measured with the KOF and AT Kearney indices
The Clark-Fisher model
Transport and communications from the 19th to the 21st century
Trade patterns and the global shift
TNCs: offshoring, outsourcing, glocalisation, and their costs and benefits
Governments and IGOs: SEZs, China’s Open Door Policy, the IMF, World Bank and WTO
Deindustrialisation and the US Rust Belt
Switched-on and switched-off places, with Singapore as a case study
Costs and benefits for China and India

Page 2 – Population, migration and urbanisation:

Population trends and projections, including population pyramids
Ageing populations (Japan) and youthful populations (Nigeria)
Malthus, Boserup and the Club of Rome
The water–food–energy nexus
Global migration flows, and the costs and benefits for host and source countries
Lee’s model and attitudes to migration
Managing migration, comparing Australia and Germany
Refugees, asylum seekers and trafficking
World urbanisation, slums (Mumbai and Lagos) and megacities, with Beijing’s air pollution

Format: editable PowerPoint with original diagrams, colour-coded key terms and up-to-date figures. It prints best on A3 and also works on A4.

This organiser is also available in the Edexcel IAS Geography Knowledge Organisers bundle with all four topics.

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