Core: Global change [Paper 2]
Unit Contents
- Unit 1: Changing population
- Unit 2: Global climate - vulnerability and resilience
- Unit 3: Global resource consumption and security
Detailed examples and case studies
Detailed example
Case study
Places explored
Northern Africa
Eastern Africa
Middle Africa
Western Africa
South America
Northern America
Eastern Asia
South-eastern Asia
Southern Asia
Western Asia
Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
Western Europe
Australia and New Zealand
Global
- 1.1.1 Global population distribution
- 1.3.1 Population trends
- 2.3.2 Global geopolitical efforts
- 3.1.1 Poverty reduction
- 3.1.2 The growth of the “new global middle class”
- 3.1.3 Ecological footprints
- 3.1.4 Water, land and food
- 3.1.5 Energy
- 3.3.1 Divergent thinking
- 3.3.2 The circular economy
- 3.3.3 Resource stewardship and the UN SDGs
Approaches
Visual stimulus
- 1.1.1 Global population distribution
- 1.1.2 Global patterns of global development
- 1.1.3 National Scale
- 1.2.1 Population change
- 1.2.3 Migration - knowledge and understanding
- 1.2.4 Forced migrations - detailed examples
- 1.3.1 Population trends
- 1.3.2 Ageing societies - Japan
- 1.3.3 Gender equality policies
- 1.3.4 Anti-trafficking policies
- 2.1.1 The atmospheric system
- 2.1.3 The enhanced greenhouse effect
- 2.2.1 Climate change and the hydrosphere and atmosphere
- 2.2.2 Climate change and the biosphere
- 2.3.1 Risk and vulnerability
- 2.3.2 Global geopolitical efforts
- 2.3.3 Mitigation strategies
- 3.1.1 Poverty reduction
- 3.1.2 The growth of the “new global middle class”
- 3.1.3 Ecological footprints
- 3.1.4 Water, land and food
- 3.1.5 Energy
- 3.2.1 Nexus Thinking
- 3.2.3 Recycling and waste
Podcast
- 1.1.2 Global patterns of global development
- 1.2.1 Population change
- 1.2.3 Migration - knowledge and understanding
- 1.2.4 Forced migrations - detailed examples
- 1.3.2 Ageing societies - Japan
- 1.3.3 Gender equality policies
- 1.3.5 Demographic dividend
- 2.1.3 The enhanced greenhouse effect
- 2.2.1 Climate change and the hydrosphere and atmosphere
- 2.2.2 Climate change and the biosphere
- 2.3.3 Mitigation strategies
- 2.3.4 Civil society and corporate strategies
- 3.1.1 Poverty reduction
- 3.1.3 Ecological footprints
- 3.1.4 Water, land and food
- 3.1.5 Energy
- 3.2.2 Water, food and energy
- 3.2.3 Recycling and waste
- 3.3.1 Divergent thinking
- 3.3.2 The circular economy
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