Human intervention
What Human intervention means in Geography A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Human impacts that significantly accelerate changes in the carbon cycle, including hydrocarbon fuel extraction and burning, farming practices, deforestation and land use changes.
Human activities such as deforestation, grazing, and controlled burning that can arrest natural succession and prevent an ecosystem from reaching its climatic climax.
Action in coastal landscapes that aims to mitigate flood and erosion risks through various strategies.
Topics that use Human intervention
- Coastal management (AQA A-Level)
- Ecosystems in the British Isles over time (AQA A-Level)
- The carbon cycle (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Adaptation
- Carbon budget
- Carbon reservoirs
- Climatic climax
- Cryosphere
- Ecological succession
- Enhanced greenhouse effect
- Hydrosphere
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