1. Global trends in consumption

Geographic inquiry: How global development processes affect resource availability and consumption

• 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

• Synthesis, evaluation and skills opportunities: How different patterns and trends are interrelated and involve spatial interactions between different places