'World Geography Case Studies'

World Geography Case Studies - UK£9.95 (US$20.95) (ISBN 0-521-45667-3).

World Geography Case Studies contains 16 case studies for GCSE geography. They are arranged into five categories:

Each case study is structured as an enquiry with students assigned a role in order to gather information. To help in this task there are a number of key questions to guide students, together with numerous activities. Key terms and key understandings at the end of each case study provide a useful summary of the case study for students. A series of further activities - short-answer tasks, role plays, library and research tasks, can be used to develop the case study if required.

The case studies, including:

will not be familiar to many teachers and students, and so provide a change from some other case studies which seem to appear in almost every GCSE textbook.

Overall this book certainly contains a wealth of well presented information and a strong range of activities. Whilst the book has much to commend it perhaps the material could have been better used as part of a single book approach to GCSE geography, maybe in the World Geography Core Book itself.

World Geography Case Studies would certainly be a useful addition to any geography department's resources. However standing alone as it does it will always need another textbook to use alongside it, and therefore becomes a somewhat expensive option for most departments.

My thanks to Leena Chauhan at Cambridge University Press for providing a review copy of this book.