Syllabus Outline

Core – Patterns and change

  1. Populations in transition
  2. Disparities in wealth and development
  3. Patterns in environmental quality and sustainability
  4. Patterns in resource consumption

Freshwater – issues and conflicts

  1. The water system
  2. Drainage basins and flooding
  3. Management issues and strategies
  4. Competing demands for water

Extreme environments

  1. Challenging environments
  2. The physical characteristics of extreme environments
  3. Opportunities and challenges for management
  4. Sustainability

The geography of food and health

  1. Health
  2. Food
  3. Disease

HL – Global interactions

  1. Measuring global interactions
  2. Changing space – the shrinking world
  3. Economic interactions and flows
  4. Environmental change
  5. Sociocultural exchanges
  6. Political outcomes
  7. Global interactions at the local level