ee.4.4 Global climate change in extreme environments
Content
- Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
- Future possibilities for managing extreme environments and their communities
- Geographic knowledge and understanding
- The impacts and management of global climate change in extreme environments, including adaptation by local populations
- Case study or detailed examples
- Neither required by the syllabus
- Aims of this lesson
- To be able to describe and explain the impacts and management of global climate change in high-latitude extreme environments, including adaptation by local populations.
- To be able to describe and explain the impacts and management of global climate change in high-altitude extreme environments, including adaptation by local populations.
Base knowledge and understanding
News article
Can an entire Arctic ecosystem evolve to adapt to the climate crisis?
In the first project of its kind, scientists are trying to answer if the future of Alaska’s streams and tundra may depend not on survival of the fittest but on how species adapt together
The Guardian · 9 September 2026
Key terms
- Adaptation
- Means anticipating the adverse effects of climate change and taking appropriate action to prevent or minimise the damage they can cause, or taking advantage of opportunities that may arise.
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Review
- For one named example, explain two consequences of resource competition in an extreme environment. [4]
- Examine how competition for resources in extreme environments has led to tensions between indigenous groups and transnational corporations. [10]
- Examine the role of civil society organisations and indigenous groups in managing resource competition in extreme environments. [10]