3.1 Global trends in consumption

Unit Contents

• 3.1.1 Poverty reduction
• 3.1.2 The growth of the “new global middle class”
• 3.1.3 Ecological footprints
• 3.1.4 The availability and consumption of water, land and food
• 3.1.5 Energy

3.1 Global trends in consumption is part of the core — Global change (Paper 2). The geographic inquiry for this sub-topic is: the effects of global climate change on places, societies and environmental systems

---

Geographic inquiry: The effects of global climate change on places, societies and environmental systems

• Global and regional/continental progress towards poverty reduction -
  • including the growth of the “new global middle class”
• Measuring trends in resource consumption, including individual, national and global ecological footprints
• An overview of global patterns and trends in the availability and consumption of:
  • water, including embedded water in food and manufactured goods
  • land/food, including changing diets in middle-income countries
  • energy, including the relative and changing importance of hydrocarbons, nuclear power, renewables, new sources of modern energy

---