Oxford IB Diploma Programme: Geography Course Companion

Vorwort
The only DP resources developed with the IB

Autorentext

Garrett Nagle, Briony Cooke

Klappentext

Prepare IB learners to achieve and progress. Developed directly with the IB for the revised syllabus first examined 2019, this Course Book fully supports all the SL and HL themes. Integrating concept-based learning and with even more support for EAL learners, this text helps you truly deliver the IB approach to learning Geography.

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• Option A

• 1: Drainage basin hydrology and geomorphology

• 2: Flooding and flood mitigation

• 3: Water scarcity and water quality

• 4: Water management futures

• Option B

• 1: Ocean-atmosphere interactions

• 2: Interactions between oceans and the coastal places

• 3: Managing coastal margins

• 4: Ocean management futures

• Option C

• 1: The characteristics of extreme environments

• 2: Physical processes and landscapes

• 3: Managing extreme environments

• 4: Extreme environments' futures

• Option D

• 1: Geophysical systems

• 2: Geophysical hazard risks

• 3: Hazard risk and vulnerability

• 4: Future resilience and adaptation

• Option E

• 1: Changing leisure patterns

• 2: Tourism and sport at the local and national scale

• 3: Tourism and sport at the international scale

• 4: Managing tourism and sport for the future

• Option F

• 1: Measuring food and health

• 2: Food systems and the spread of disease

• 3: Stakeholders in food and health

• 4: Future health and food security sustainability

• Option G

• 1: The variety of urban environments

• 2: Changing urban systems

• 3: Urban environmental and social stresses

• 4: Building sustainable urban systems for the future

• Unit 1

• 1: Population and economic development patterns

• 2: Changing populations and places

• 3: Challenges and opportunities

• Unit 2

• 1: The causes of global climate change

• 2: The consequences of global climate change

• 3: Responding to climate change

• Unit 3

• 1: Global trends in consumption

• 2: Impacts of changing trends in resource consumption

• 3: Resource stewardship

• Unit 4

• 1: Global interactions and global power

• 2: Global networks and flows

• 3: Human and physical influences on global interactions

• Unit 5

• 1: Development opportunities

• 2: Changing identities and cultures

• 3: Local responses to global interactions

• Unit 6

• 1: Geopolitical and economic risks

• 2: Environmental risks

• 3: Local and global resilience