3.1 Global trends in consumption
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3.1 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