Unit 6: Global risks and resilience revision

Required case studies

• One TBP case study including the consequences and possible responses
  • geographyalltheway.com > Transboundary pollution

Required detailed examples

• Two detailed examples to illustrate geopolitical tension/conflict
  • geographyalltheway.com > Globalization and nationalism
• Detailed examples of one environmental and one social civil society organization action
  • geographyalltheway.com > Raise awareness

Suggested examples [as an absolute minimum]

• 6.1 Geopolitical and economic risks
  • Examples of hacking and identity theft
  • Example of the implications of surveillance for personal freedoms
  • Political risks to global supply chain flows
  • Economic risks to global supply chain flows
  • Physical risks to global supply chain flows
  • Profit repatriation by TNCs and/or wealthy individuals
  • Tax avoidance by TNCs and/or wealthy individuals
  • Disruptive technological innovations, such as drones and 3D printing
• 6.2 Environmental risks
  • Localised pollution, including impacts along shipping lanes, as environmental impacts of global flows
  • Carbon footprints for global flows of food, goods and people as environmental impacts of global flows
  • Environmental issues linked with the global shift of polluting manufacturing industries
  • Environmental issues linked with food production systems for global agribusiness
• 6.3 Local and global resilience
  • Re-shoring of economic activity by TNCs as a strategies to build resilience
  • The use of crowd-sourcing technologies to build resilience by government and civil society
  • New technologies for the management of global flows of data and people, including cybersecurity and e-passports

6.1 Geopolitical and economic risks

6.2 Environmental risks

6.3 Local and global resilience

Online quizzes

• Kahoot - IB DP Geography - Global interactions - Environmental impacts of global flows