Last Day Tips & Topics for Geography Optional – 2017 YouTube Lecture Handouts

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Major Topics

Physical Geography

  • Hurricane – USA (Ordering)
  • New Continent Discovery

Coral Bleaching

Why Coral Bleaching Occurs? 8 Major Causes & Human Intervention

  • Thermohaline Circulation
  • Climate Change – Carbon Sequestration

COP22 and Marrakesh Action Proclamation for Our Climate & Sustainable Development

Climate Awareness – Science express

Biogeographic Classification

Biogeographic Regionalization: Holdridge, Rapoport, MacArthur & Wilson, Pielou, Muller, Morrone

  • Landforms – Glacial, Fluvial, Aeolian, Karst, Coastal
  • Soil Classification

Zonal Classification of Soil by USDA - 12 Soils Categorized

Human & Economic Geography

  • Welfare Approach

Welfare Approach: Achieving Pareto Optimality - Prespectives in Human Geography

  • NBPZ – Economics - Richard Thaler – behavioral approach

Behavioral Approach: Origin, 4 Development and Critic - Perspectives in Human Geography

  • Renewable Sources – Waste to Wealth, Solar, Wind

Renewable Energy in India - Targets 2022

  • Dryland farming
  • Theories – Weber, Thunen, Losch – Modifications and New versions

Weber՚s Industrial Location Theory & Smith՚s Concept: Fundamentals of Geography

August Losch Economic Location Theory - 2 Key Aspects -Examrace

Von Thunen Model of Agricultural Location: Fundamentals of Geography

  • Regional Development – convergence and divergence

Regional Development Theories - Boudeville and Hirschman՚s Trickle Down and Polarization

5 Conceptual Basis for Regional Development Theories

Indian Geography

  • Floods & Droughts –

Droughts in India - The Recent Scenario (2014 to 2017)

  • Monsoons – Prediction, El-Nino, La-Nina

Indian Monsoon - Factors, Theories, Phenomena & Characteristics

  • Blue Revolution – Inland Navigation

Sagar Mala Project - Closer to Success of Blue Revolution with Key MAP Locations

  • Interlinking of Rivers
  • Sweet Revolution
  • Evergreen Revolution – Organic Farming
  • Major Schemes

24 Major Government Schemes, Projects and Yojanas 2017: Summary (Current Affairs ⟋ GS)

3 Urban Mega Schemes - Smart City Mission, AMRUT & PMAY - Key MAP Locations

  • SAUNI, Kalpsar Projects

Kalpsar Project - Gulf of Khambhat Development Program - Key MAP Locations

SAUNI Yojana - Boon for 11 Districts of Saurashtra Region - Key MAP Locations

  • Dam Building & Impact

Changing Focus

  • Less focus on direct questions
  • More conceptual and applicative based
  • Looking for your views and perspectives

What to Keep in Mind?

  • No Incomplete Maps
  • Proper Labelling
  • No Distorted Maps
  • Systematic & Coherent Ideas
  • Case Studies (Beneficial)
  • Theories (Not Compulsory)
  • Time Management
  • Create Liveliness (not Monotonous)
  • Not reveal you are non-geography student
  • Keep Quiet if Doubtful
  • Silence is True Wisdom՚s Best Reply

Manishika