Barcelona Field Studies Centre

Field Studies Availability Checklist: OCR B

 Syllabus OCR B
 
Agriculture Horticulture X
Pressure on the urban fringe   
                                                                                                              
Coasts Cliff and beach systems X
Coastal management X
Halosere vegetation succession  
Sand dune vegetation succession and management X
 
Climate Forest climates  
Shelter belts and wind breaks  
Topo-climates  
 
Ecosystems Aleppo pine/Evergreen oak climax vegetation X
Ecology of urban areas  
Halosere vegetation succession  
Hydrosere  
Maquis/garrigue biome  
Mediterranean wetlands X
National Park management X
Plagioclimax  
Sand dune vegetation succession X
 
Glaciation Glaciated landscapes and landforms  
Periglacial processes and landforms  
 
Hazards Flood and drought hazards and management X
 
Industry Industrial change and de-industrialisation X
Research and development incubators  
TNCs X
Changing pattern of retailing  
 
Limestone landscapes    
 
Rivers Channel characteristics X
Drainage basin management X
Effects of human activity on fluvial processes X
Flood hazard and management X
Fluvial processes and landforms X
Rainfall-discharge relationships X
 
Rural areas Contrasting experiences of semi-rural and extreme rural areas  
Managing rural environments  
Rural depopulation X
Sustainable rural development  
 
Slopes Slope processes X
 
Soils
Brown earths, gleys, rendzinas and terra rossas  
 
Sport and leisure Impact of sport and leisure activities  
 
Tectonics Economic benefits of igneous activity  
Extrusive landforms  
Tectonic processes and landforms  
 
Tourism Intra-national tourism and recreation X
National Park management X
Sustainable tourist development X
Tourist pressures on coastal environments  
 
Urban City planning and development issues X
Changing pattern of retailing  
Ecology of urban areas  
Managing urban environments X
Patterns of urban land use  
Re-urbanisation  
Spatial segregation X
Sustainable city management X
Urban change and environmental problems  
Urban-rural migration, suburbanisation and counterurbanisation X
 
 

Water Resources

 

Irrigation study X
Water supply and demand X
 
 

Wilderness environments

 

Pressures, conflicts and management X
 
 Syllabus OCR B