model answers for the latest UPSC Geography Optional – Mains 2025, Paper-1 (Physical + Human Geography), based on the officially asked questions.
SECTION A
Q1. (a) Causes of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) – 10 marks
Definition:
A GLOF is a sudden release of water from a glacial or moraine-dammed lake, causing flash floods downstream.
Major causes:
- Weak / unstable dams
- Moraine dams made of unconsolidated debris; ice-cored moraines prone to melting and piping.
- Rapid glacier melt & lake expansion
- Climate warming → more meltwater → lake volume and hydrostatic pressure increase.
- Ice / rock avalanches into the lake
- Sudden displacement of water overtops the dam and initiates breaching.
- Seismic and tectonic activity
- Earthquakes destabilise valley slopes and dam material.
- Intense rainfall / cloudbursts
- Additional inflow raises lake level, triggers dam failure.
- Sub-glacial drainage changes
- Blockage or sudden opening of channels leads to abrupt discharge.
Value addition:
Mention Himalayan examples (e.g., South Lhonak, Kedarnath region) and need for remote-sensing based GLOF hazard zonation.
Q1. (b) Solifluction and its impacts – 10 marks
Concept:
Solifluction is the slow downslope flow of water-saturated soil and regolith over impermeable or frozen sub-surface, typical of periglacial environments.
Process:
- Seasonal thawing of active layer over permafrost or frozen ground.
- Meltwater saturates soil → reduces internal friction → mass moves downslope in a viscous manner.
Impacts:
- Micro-relief features – solifluction lobes, terraces, and sheets; terraced hillside appearance.
- Soil degradation – mixing and transport of topsoil, affecting pedogenesis and vegetation.
- Slope instability – predisposes slopes to faster mass movements like debris flows.
- Engineering problems – damage to roads, pipelines, building foundations in cold regions.
- Ecological influence – affects rooting depth, plant community structure and permafrost dynamics.
Conclude with: it is a climatically controlled mass movement process, crucial for understanding periglacial landscape evolution.
Q1. (c) Processes leading to formation of nappes in orogenic belts – 10 marks
Nappes:
Large-scale, over-thrust sheets of rock transported tens of kilometres over underlying strata, common in Alpine-type mountain belts.
Key geological & tectonic processes:
- Plate convergence and compressional stress
- Collision (continent–continent / continent–island arc) generates strong horizontal compression.
- Thrust faulting and over-folding
- Development of recumbent folds, isoclinal folds; limbs become nearly horizontal.
- Detachment along weak layers
- Movement along décollement surfaces (shales, evaporites) allows upper blocks to glide.
- Gravity sliding & tangential forces
- Over-thickened crust leads to gravitational spreading, facilitating nappe transport.
- Metamorphism & ductile deformation
- At depth, rocks deform plastically; at shallower levels, brittle thrusts slice the nappes.
Mention examples like Helvetic and Penninic nappes of the Alps or Himalayan Main Central Thrust system.
Q1. (d) Relationship between air masses and local winds – 10 marks
Air masses:
Large bodies of air with uniform temperature and humidity (mT, cP, cT, etc.). They control the regional pressure and thermal field.
Relationship:
- Pressure gradients within air masses
- Heating / cooling over land–sea or mountain–valley boundaries create small-scale pressure differences → local winds (sea/land breeze, mountain/valley winds).
- Air-mass boundaries (fronts)
- Sharp thermal contrasts generate gusty local winds and thunderstorms.
- Modification of air masses
- As an air mass moves over new surfaces, differential heating produces katabatic/anabatic winds, foehn/chinook types.
- Monsoon and trade-wind regimes
- Seasonal migration of tropical air masses shapes monsoonal local winds like loo, mango showers, etc.
Thus, local winds are the mesoscale response of the atmosphere within or at the margins of larger air-mass systems.
Q1. (e) Differences among ocean waves, currents and tides – 10 marks
You can present as a comparison:
- Generating force
- Waves: Mainly wind stress on the surface.
- Currents: Persistent wind belts, density differences, Coriolis force, pressure gradients.
- Tides: Gravitational pull of Moon and Sun + Earth’s rotation.
- Period & scale
- Waves: Short period (seconds), local to regional.
- Currents: Long-lasting (months–years), basin-scale.
- Tides: Regular semi-diurnal/diurnal cycles (hours), global.
- Water movement
- Waves: Mainly orbital motion; little net transport in deep water.
- Currents: Real horizontal transport of water masses.
- Tides: Periodic vertical and horizontal movement (flood/ebb).
- Role
- Waves: Coastal erosion and beach shaping.
- Currents: Heat and nutrient transport, climate regulation.
- Tides: Tidal energy, mixing in estuaries, navigation.
Q2. (a) Denudation chronology and sequential landscape development – 20 marks
Intro:
Denudation chronology reconstructs the order and timing of erosion, weathering and mass-wasting events which build and destroy landforms.
How it helps understand sequence of landforms:
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Stage-wise evolution (cycle of erosion)
- Identifies youth–maturity–old age stages (Davis, Penck, King).
- Explains progressive transformation from high relief to low relief peneplains or pediplains.
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Surface correlation & palaeo-surfaces
- Uplifted planation surfaces, strath terraces, etchplains are dated/related to tectonic episodes.
- Helps correlate surfaces across regions to identify phases of uplift and quiescence.
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Tectonic–climatic controls
- Separate denudational phases linked to climatic shifts (humid → arid) or episodic uplift.
- Example: stepped pediments and rejuvenated valleys in peninsular India.
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Quantitative geomorphology
- Use of river long profiles, hypsometric curves, erosion rates to infer stages of valley development.
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Applied relevance
- Guides engineering geology, groundwater prospecting, soil conservation by recognising stable vs actively incising terrains.
Conclusion:
Denudation chronology provides a time-structured framework to read landscapes as a “geomorphic history book,” integrating tectonics, climate and process.
Q2. (b) Deep-sea mining: meaning, benefits and risks – 20 marks
Definition:
Deep-sea mining involves extraction of minerals from ocean floors at depths > 200 m, especially from polymetallic nodules, sulphides and cobalt-rich crusts on abyssal plains and mid-ocean ridges.
Potential benefits:
- Resource security
- Access to strategic metals: Mn, Ni, Co, Cu, REEs, crucial for batteries, electronics and green technologies.
- Reduced land pressure
- May lessen dependence on terrestrial mining in ecologically fragile or densely populated regions.
- Economic opportunities
- New maritime industries, employment, technological innovation; supports Blue Economy agenda.
- Strategic advantage
- Strengthens claims in Exclusive Economic Zones and international seabed areas (ISA contracts).
Major risks:
- Benthic habitat destruction
- Disturbance of unique deep-sea ecosystems; slow-growing fauna and microbes may take centuries to recover.
- Sediment plumes
- Smother filter feeders, alter biogeochemical cycles, impact mid-water species.
- Noise, light and chemical pollution
- Affects deep-sea organisms adapted to darkness and silence.
- Regulatory and equity issues
- “Common heritage of humankind” vs profit motives; technology-rich states could monopolise benefits.
Conclusion:
Deep-sea mining is a classic environment–development trade-off; precautionary approach, strong ISA regulations and robust EIAs are essential before commercial operations.
Q2. (c) Increasing man–wildlife conflicts: causes, consequences, remedies – 10 marks
Causes:
- Habitat loss and fragmentation due to agriculture, infrastructure, mining.
- Encroachment into corridors, blocking traditional movement paths.
- Attractive crops and livestock at forest fringes.
- Decline of natural prey leading to predation on livestock.
- Climate change forcing altitudinal and latitudinal shifts of species.
Consequences:
- Crop damage, livestock depredation, human injuries and deaths.
- Retaliatory killing, poisoning, snaring of wildlife.
- Negative attitudes towards conservation, undermining protected-area efforts.
Remedial measures:
- Landscape-level corridor conservation and buffer zones.
- Early-warning systems, physical barriers, crop guarding, compensation schemes.
- Community-based conservation, alternative livelihoods and eco-tourism.
- Scientific relocation of problematic individuals, use of technology (GPS collars, drones).
Q3. (a) Formation of tricellular atmospheric circulation – 20 marks
Intro:
The global circulation is idealised as three cells per hemisphere – Hadley, Ferrel and Polar – arising from uneven heating and Earth’s rotation.
Steps in formation:
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Differential heating equator vs poles
- Strong convection over equator → rising air → low pressure (ITCZ).
- Air diverges aloft towards subtropics.
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Hadley Cell (0°–30°)
- Upper-air flow moves poleward, cools, descends around 25–30° → subtropical highs.
- Return flow at surface as trade winds towards ITCZ.
- Controlled by strong convection and latent-heat release.
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Polar Cell (60°–90°)
- Cold dense air sinks over poles → polar highs.
- Surface flow towards subpolar lows; rises at ~60° and returns aloft.
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Ferrel Cell (30°–60°)
- Indirect, thermally indirect cell between Hadley and Polar cells.
- Driven by westerlies and eddies generated by baroclinic instability.
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Role of Earth’s rotation and spherical shape
- Coriolis force deflects flows, creating trade winds, westerlies, polar easterlies.
- Curvature and varying insolation with latitude maintain thermal gradient.
(You can draw a meridional cross-section showing the three cells, surface winds and pressure belts.)
Q3. (b) UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and balance with socio-economic needs – 15 marks
Intro:
The UN declared 2021–2030 as the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration to combat ecosystem degradation and support SDGs.
Ecological goals:
- Restore degraded forests, wetlands, grasslands, coastal and marine ecosystems.
- Enhance biodiversity, carbon sequestration, soil fertility and water regulation.
- Reduce disaster risk (floods, landslides, droughts) through nature-based solutions.
Balancing socio-economic needs:
- Food security:
- Restoration of agro-ecosystems, agro-forestry, sustainable land management → improved yields and resilience.
- Livelihoods and poverty reduction:
- Green jobs in restoration, ecotourism, sustainable harvesting; supports rural incomes.
- Inclusive governance:
- Emphasis on indigenous and local communities’ rights, participatory planning.
- Finance and policy integration:
- Aligning restoration with climate finance (NDCs, REDD+), agricultural and rural-development policies.
Challenges:
Land-use conflicts, short-term economic interests, insecure tenure.
Conclusion:
The Decade seeks win–win pathways by treating healthy ecosystems as natural infrastructure for development.
Q3. (c) “The Himalaya is still rising” – processes involved – 15 marks
Evidence for ongoing uplift:
- Geodetic measurements (GPS) show uplift rates of a few mm/yr.
- Frequent earthquakes along Main Himalayan Thrust.
- Deep incision of rivers like Satluj, Teesta, Arun indicating rapid uplift.
Processes:
- Continued convergence of Indian and Eurasian plates
- ~4–5 cm/yr convergence; part taken up as crustal shortening and thickening.
- Isostatic adjustment
- Erosion removes mass; crust responds by isostatic rebound and uplift.
- Under-thrusting and crustal flow
- Indian plate underthrusts Tibet; partial melting and lateral extrusion support plateau elevation.
Draw a block diagram showing India underthrusting beneath Eurasia, major thrusts (MBT, MCT, MFT) and uplift arrows.
Conclude that Himalaya is a dynamic young fold mountain system in a state of tectonic disequilibrium.
Q4. (a) Ecological consequences of agricultural deforestation in Amazon & Congo basins – 20 marks
Intro:
Both basins host the world’s largest tropical rainforests; expansion of cattle ranching, soy, oil-palm, shifting cultivation and logging is driving deforestation.
Consequences for biodiversity:
- Habitat loss and fragmentation of mega-diverse ecosystems.
- Decline of endemic species, pollinators and keystone fauna.
- Disruption of ecological corridors, leading to genetic isolation.
Consequences for climate regulation:
- Reduced carbon sink → increased atmospheric CO₂, amplifying global warming.
- Albedo and evapotranspiration changes → altered regional rainfall, risk of “savannisation” in Amazon.
- Impacts on Congo basin rainfall teleconnections affecting Sahel and beyond.
Hydrological and soil impacts:
- Increased runoff, soil erosion and sediment load in rivers.
- Declining groundwater recharge, more frequent floods and droughts.
Socio-ecological impacts:
- Threats to indigenous communities’ livelihoods and culture.
- Feedbacks to global food systems due to climate extremes.
Conclusion:
Agricultural deforestation in these basins undermines planetary-scale regulating services, making them critical fronts in climate and biodiversity policy.
Q4. (b) Distribution and balance of energy in Earth’s atmosphere – 15 marks
Key elements:
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Incoming solar radiation (insolation)
- Uneven with latitude: surplus in tropics, deficit in high latitudes.
- Affected by angle of incidence, day length, cloud cover, surface albedo.
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Outgoing longwave radiation (OLR)
- Earth re-emits energy as infrared; partially absorbed by greenhouse gases (CO₂, H₂O, CH₄).
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Vertical balance
- At surface: net radiation used for sensible heat, latent heat (evaporation) and ground heat flux.
- In atmosphere: absorption by gases, clouds, aerosols; latent heat release in condensation.
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Horizontal balance
- Meridional heat transport by atmospheric circulation (winds, storms) and ocean currents redistributes energy from surplus to deficit zones.
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Radiative equilibrium vs climate change
- Enhanced greenhouse effect disturbs balance, leading to positive radiative forcing and warming.
Conclude that the climate system strives for quasi-equilibrium, but anthropogenic forcing is shifting this balance.
Q4. (c) Formation and significance of barrier islands – 15 marks
Formation processes:
- Develop along low-gradient, depositional coasts with abundant sand and moderate wave energy.
- Longshore drift and wave reworking build offshore sand bars that grow and become sub-aerial.
- Rising sea levels may drown coastal plains, leaving reworked beach ridges as islands (shoreface retreat model).
- Tidal inlets break chains into individual islands.
Significance:
- Natural coastal protection – absorb wave energy and storm surges, shielding mainland and lagoons.
- Unique ecosystems – dunes, salt marshes, tidal flats hosting specialized flora and fauna.
- Nursery grounds for fish and shellfish; support fisheries.
- Economic value – tourism, recreation, real estate (but vulnerable to storms and sea-level rise).
Mention examples like US Atlantic–Gulf coasts, barrier islands off Odisha and Andhra coasts (Chilika side).
SECTION B
Q5. (a) Why Welfare Approach in Human Geography emerged in 1970s – 10 marks
Context:
Earlier geography was dominated by spatial analysis, regional science and positivism, focusing on efficiency and patterns, not people’s well-being.
Reasons for emergence:
- Rise of social justice movements (civil rights, feminism, anti-poverty campaigns).
- Recognition that growth and spatial efficiency do not automatically reduce inequality.
- Need to examine who benefits and who suffers from spatial processes (transport, housing, location of industry).
- Influence of radical and humanistic geographers questioning value-neutrality.
- Availability of social indicators (health, education, access to services) to map quality of life.
Focus:
Distribution of welfare, deprivation mapping, access to basic needs, planning for equity-oriented development.
Q5. (b) Environmental and economic challenges of critical minerals – 10 marks
Critical minerals: Li, Co, Ni, rare earths, etc., vital for high-tech and green energy.
Environmental challenges:
- Habitat destruction, deforestation and water pollution from mining.
- Toxic tailings (heavy metals, acids) affecting soils and rivers.
- High water and energy use → GHG emissions.
- Social conflicts and displacement of local communities.
Economic challenges:
- Supply concentration in few countries → geopolitical risk and price volatility.
- High capital and technology requirements for extraction/refining.
- Long gestation periods and uncertain demand trajectories (tech change).
- Need for recycling, substitution and circular economy to reduce dependence.
Q5. (c) Internal migration driven by perceptions – 10 marks
Core idea:
People often migrate based on perceived opportunities rather than objective conditions.
- “Bright lights” effect: Cities imagined as spaces of high wages, better living, status, regardless of actual job market saturation.
- Information from networks: Stories from earlier migrants, social media, agents – usually highlight success, hide hardships.
- Perceived push factors: Rural life seen as backward or stagnant even where agriculture may be improving.
- Risk perception: Migrants may underestimate urban risks (slums, insecurity, informal work) due to lack of accurate information.
Result:
Flows can continue even when urban unemployment is high, leading to underemployment and informalisation. Policy must tackle information asymmetry and improve conditions at source regions.
Q5. (d) Regional imbalances as a product of socio-economic factors – 10 marks
Key socio-economic drivers:
- Uneven investment patterns – colonial and post-colonial concentration of industry, infrastructure in select cores (e.g., western India vs BIMARU states).
- Human capital disparities – differences in literacy, skills, health lead to unequal productivity.
- Institutional and governance quality – better administration attracts capital, while corruption and instability deter it.
- Entrepreneurial culture and social networks – trading communities, diasporas reinforce growth in certain regions.
- Historical land relations – zamindari vs peasant-proprietorship affecting agrarian transformation.
These factors interact with physical endowments, but it is social organisation and policy that convert resources into development, producing sharp spatial inequalities.
Q5. (e) Importance and limitations of systems analysis in urban planning – 10 marks
Importance:
- Treats city as an interrelated system of land use, transport, economy, environment.
- Helps identify inputs, throughputs, outputs and feedbacks, improving understanding of congestion, pollution, housing.
- Allows scenario building and modelling for infrastructure, land-use plans.
- Facilitates integrated planning rather than sectoral silos.
Limitations:
- Tends to over-quantify, underplaying politics, power and culture.
- Quality of outputs depends heavily on data availability and assumptions.
- May favour technocratic, top-down solutions and ignore informal sector realities.
- Complexity of real cities makes building fully accurate models difficult.
Q6. (a) Dichotomy and dualism in geography and their impact on methodology – 20 marks
Dichotomies/dualism:
Physical vs human, systematic vs regional, idiographic vs nomothetic, theoretical vs applied, etc.
Impacts:
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Specialisation and depth:
- Encouraged development of distinct sub-fields (climatology, geomorphology, economic geography), enabling specialised methods.
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Fragmentation of discipline:
- Created intellectual silos, weakening holistic view of environment–society interactions.
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Methodological debates:
- Physical geography leaned towards scientific, quantitative methods; human geography moved through positivist, behavioural, radical, humanistic turns.
- Led to rich debates about explanation vs understanding, laws vs unique places.
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Paradigm shifts:
- Critique of dualisms pushed geographers towards integrated approaches: environmental perception, political ecology, human–environment systems.
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Policy relevance:
- Overcoming dualisms has improved ability to address issues like climate change, hazards, regional planning where physical and human dimensions are inseparable.
Conclusion:
Dichotomy and dualism initially structured and enriched geography, but modern geography is moving towards synthetic, inter-disciplinary frameworks.
Q6. (b) Role of language and religion in delineating cultural regions – 15 marks
Language:
- Marks shared communication and identity; linguistic boundaries often align with cultural regions (e.g., Hindi belt, Francophone West Africa).
- Influences toponyms, literature, media, education systems, creating spatially bounded communities.
- Can be used to draw linguistic regions and states (e.g., linguistic reorganisation in India).
Religion:
- Shapes ritual spaces, sacred landscapes (pilgrimage routes, holy cities).
- Defines dietary habits, festivals, family structures → spatial clustering (e.g., Islamic North Africa, Catholic Latin America).
- Religious majorities form distinct cultural regions; minorities create sub-regions and enclaves.
Interplay & limitations:
- Language and religion often overlap (Arabic-Islamic world) but sometimes cross-cut (India, Nigeria).
- Political boundaries, migration and globalisation can blur or reconfigure cultural regions.
Q6. (c) Spatial patterns of plantation crops in tropics & subtropics – 15 marks
Characteristics:
Large-scale, capital-intensive, often monoculture for export – tea, coffee, rubber, oil palm, sugarcane, cocoa, bananas, etc.
Spatial patterns:
- Tea and coffee – highlands of East Africa, Ethiopian plateau, Brazilian highlands, Western Ghats, Sri Lanka, SE Asian uplands.
- Rubber and oil palm – humid equatorial belts of SE Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand), parts of West Africa and Amazonia.
- Sugarcane – tropical and subtropical lowlands of Brazil, India, Caribbean, Australia.
- Cocoa and bananas – West Africa (Ivory Coast, Ghana), equatorial America, Caribbean.
Regional specialization:
- Colonial legacy created export-oriented plantation belts (Caribbean sugar, Malayan rubber).
- Climate, soils, labour availability, port proximity and corporate investment explain clustering.
Conclude: plantation agriculture has produced distinct agro-export regions strongly tied to world markets.
Q7. (a) Oil, energy security and role in clean energy transition – 20 marks
Why oil is vital for energy security:
- Dominant fuel for transport sector, aviation, shipping.
- Input for petrochemicals, plastics, fertilisers, pharmaceuticals.
- Highly tradable and storable, with established global infrastructure (pipelines, refineries).
- Changes in oil prices affect inflation, balance of payments, fiscal stability, especially for import-dependent countries.
Role in clean energy transition:
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Short–medium term:
- Oil remains necessary as back-up fuel; transition fuels like natural gas are closely linked to oil investments.
- Revenues from oil can finance renewables, grid upgrades and green R&D if managed via sovereign funds.
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Long term:
- Demand expected to peak and decline as EVs, hydrogen, biofuels expand.
- Oil industry capabilities (offshore engineering, project management) can shift to offshore wind, CCS and hydrogen.
Risks:
Stranded assets, volatility, resistance from oil producers; hence need just, planned transition integrating energy security with decarbonisation.
Q7. (b) Primate cities in developing countries – 15 marks
Primate city:
A city that is at least twice as large as the next city and dominates economic, political, cultural life.
Sociological evaluation:
Positive roles:
- Act as growth engines, concentrating investment, services, higher education, innovation.
- Provide modern sectors and international connectivity; can diffuse development if linkages are strong.
Negative aspects:
- Create over-centralisation: peripheral regions remain under-developed.
- Slums, socio-spatial segregation, informal economy and poor service delivery.
- Cultural dominance may marginalise regional identities and languages.
- Political power concentration can lead to policy bias towards primate city interests.
Examples: Bangkok, Lagos, Dhaka, Nairobi.
Conclusion: primate cities are necessary but not sufficient; balanced urban hierarchy is needed.
Q7. (c) Diverging global demographic trends – 15 marks
Pattern:
Some regions face rapid population growth, others rapid ageing.
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Rapid growth:
- Sub-Saharan Africa, parts of South Asia – high fertility, youthful age structure, demographic momentum.
- Challenges: unemployment, pressure on education, health, environment; but also demographic dividend opportunity.
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Rapid ageing:
- Europe, Japan, South Korea, parts of China – low fertility, increased life expectancy.
- Challenges: shrinking workforce, rising dependency ratio, pension and healthcare burden; need for migration, automation.
Causes of divergence:
- Differences in economic development, female education, urbanisation, social norms, health transition.
- Policy choices (e.g., one-child policy, pronatalist incentives).
Conclude that global demographic landscape is increasingly polarised, with implications for migration, global labour markets and geopolitics.
Q8. (a) Criticism of Perroux’s Growth Pole theory – 20 marks
Core idea:
Growth originates at “poles” – dynamic industry/regions – and diffuses to surrounding areas via linkages.
Major criticisms:
- Over-emphasis on economic forces:
- Underplays political, social and institutional factors in regional development.
- Trickle-down assumption:
- Empirically, growth poles often create backwash effects, widening regional disparities instead of spreading benefits.
- Space-less original formulation:
- Initially abstract, focusing on industries not actual geographic space; later spatialised but with conceptual gaps.
- Neglect of peripheral agency:
- Treats periphery as passive recipient, ignoring local entrepreneurship and bottom-up dynamics.
- Unsuitable for all contexts:
- Works better in industrialising economies with strong state coordination; less effective in agrarian or highly informal economies.
- Environmental and social costs:
- Concentration may cause congestion, pollution, social conflict at core regions.
Conclude that while influential in regional planning, the theory needs adaptation with equity, environment and multi-level governance considerations.
Q8. (b) Demographic Transition Theory and fertility–mortality variations – 15 marks
Stages:
- High stationary: High birth & death rates → low growth.
- Early expanding: Death rates fall (health, sanitation), births stay high → rapid growth.
- Late expanding: Birth rates decline (urbanisation, education, contraception).
- Low stationary: Both low → stable population.
- Declining: Very low fertility → population ageing and decline.
Explaining variations:
- Regions in different stages show different fertility–mortality patterns (e.g., Africa stage 2, Europe stage 4/5).
- Captures shift from infectious disease mortality to degenerative/ lifestyle diseases.
- Links fertility decline to modernisation, female empowerment, child survival.
Limitations:
Eurocentric, assumes uniform path; does not fully explain stalling fertility transitions or pro-natalist reversals.
Q8. (c) Regional components and regional synthesis in spatial arrangement – 15 marks
Idea:
A region is a spatial synthesis of multiple components – physical, economic, social, cultural, political.
How components create synthesis:
- Physical base: Relief, climate, soils set ecological possibilities (e.g., Indo-Gangetic alluvium enabling intensive agriculture).
- Economic structure: Cropping patterns, industries, transport networks shape functional integration.
- Social–cultural fabric: Language, caste/ethnicity, religion create cohesion or fragmentation.
- Institutional and political settings: Administrative boundaries, policies, development programmes.
Through interaction and mutual adjustment, these components yield a distinct regional personality (e.g., “Green Revolution Punjab”, “Konkan coastal region”).
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