6.2 Environmental risks

Unit Contents

• 6.2.1 Transboundary pollution - Chernobyl
• 6.2.2 Environmental impacts of global flows
• 6.2.3 Carbon footprints for global flows
• 6.2.4 Global shift of industry

6.2 Environmental risks is part of the higher level extension — Global interactions (Paper 3). The geographic inquiry for this sub-topic is: how global interactions create environmental risks for particular places and people

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Geographic inquiry: How global interactions create environmental risks for particular places and people

• Transboundary pollution (TBP) affecting a large area/more than one country
  • One TBP case study including the consequences and possible responses
• Environmental impacts of global flows at varying scales:
  • localized pollution, including impacts along shipping lanes
  • carbon footprints for global flows of food, goods and people
• Environmental issues linked with the global shift of industry:
  • polluting manufacturing industries
  • food production systems for global agribusiness

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