Core – Patterns and change
- Populations in transition
- Disparities in wealth and development
- Patterns in environmental quality and sustainability
- Patterns in resource consumption
Freshwater – issues and conflicts
- The water system
- Drainage basins and flooding
- Management issues and strategies
- Competing demands for water
Extreme environments
- Challenging environments
- The physical characteristics of extreme environments
- Opportunities and challenges for management
- Sustainability
The geography of food and health
HL – Global interactions
- Measuring global interactions
- Changing space – the shrinking world
- Economic interactions and flows
- Environmental change
- Sociocultural exchanges
- Political outcomes
- Global interactions at the local level