ee.3 Managing extreme environments

Unit Contents

• ee.3.1 Mineral extraction in cold environments - Oil extraction in northern Alaska
• ee.3.2 Mineral extraction in arid environments - Uranium extraction in Niger
• ee.3.3 Agricultural opportunities and challenges in arid areas
• ee.3.4 Tourism in extreme environments

ee.3 Managing extreme environments is part of the Extreme environments geographic theme (Paper 1). The geographic inquiry for this sub-topic is: the varying power of different stakeholders to extract economic value from extreme environments

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Geographic inquiry: The varying power of different stakeholders to extract economic value from extreme environments

• Agricultural opportunities and challenges in arid areas, including the distinction between aridity and infertility, irrigation access, salinization risk and land ownership
• Human and physical opportunities and challenges for mineral extraction in cold environments, including inaccessibility, permafrost and resource nationalism
  • Case study of one cold environment to illustrate the issues
• Human and physical opportunities and challenges for mineral extraction in arid environments, including inaccessibility and climatic and political factors
  • Case study of one arid environment to illustrate the issues
• Opportunities and challenges for tourism in extreme environments
  • Detailed examples illustrating the involvement of local and global stakeholders

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