Y12 - coastal flooding and levels of development

AS – “Explain the physical and human causes of one flood in a developing country (8 marks)

A-Level – “Evaluate the influence of a country’s level of development in determining the impacts of coastal flooding” (16 marks)7

This second, A-Level question, requires you to evaluate. You are expected to decide how much levels of development affect the impacts of flooding. By doing this, you need to weigh up how humans are making the impacts worse with the physical causes.

In a conclusion you need to recognise how human pressures on coastal regions (agriculture, forest clearance, urbanisation) are increasing.

However, whereas, although, on the one hand, in spite, despite are the key phrases to use to evaluate.