6.3 Local and global resilience

Unit Contents

• 6.3.1 Raise awareness
• 6.3.2 Crowd-sourcing technologies
• 6.3.3 New technologies for the management of global flows

6.3 Local and global resilience is part of the higher level extension — Global interactions (Paper 3). The geographic inquiry for this sub-topic is: new and emerging possibilities for managing global risks

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Geographic inquiry: New and emerging possibilities for managing global risks

• The success of international civil society organizations in attempting to raise awareness about, and find solutions for, environmental and social risks associated with global interactions
  • Detailed examples of one environmental and one social civil society organization action
• Strategies to build resilience:
  • re-shoring of economic activity by TNCs
  • use of crowd-sourcing technologies to build resilience by government and civil society
  • new technologies for the management of global flows of data and people, including cybersecurity and e-passports

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