Economic Activity and Energy Revision Checklist

1. Economic sectors definitions, examples, LICs and HICs
2. Informal sector vs formal sector employment characteristics, examples, advantages and disadvantages
3. Changing location of tertiary and quaternary sectors
4. Global shift in manufacturing TNCs (more profit by locating their factories on cheap land), transport (faster and cheaper so distance from raw materials/markets is less of an issue), communications (faster and more efficient – contact with factories abroad), energy (national grid systems to provide electricity, which manufacturing relies on), governments, footloose industries
5. Deindustrialisation 
6. Energy demand/supply and the energy gap
7. Renewable and non-renewable sources advantages and disadvantages of each
8. Energy efficiency arguments for and against, ways to be efficient
9. Planning fieldwork good vs bad questionnaires, sampling technique (minimizing bias, random vs stratified), sample size (how many people surveyed), data presentation, conclusion (trends, anomalies), evaluation (quality of questionnaire/sampling technique/data/presentation method etc)

Case studies:

• South Wales (deindustrialisation)
• M4 Corridor (high-tech industry)
• Nissan car assembly plant in Sunderland (re-industrialisation)
• HIC and LIC (decentralization of service industry)