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Populations in Transition

Disparities in Wealth and

Development

Patterns in Environmental

Quality and Sustainability

Patterns in Resource

Consumption

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Code de la famille, France, 1939Example Norway (fertility rate 1.8)

Evaluate an example of a pro‑natalist policy.

1,2

AustraliaUSA

(New York)

Explain disparities and inequities that occur within countries resulting from ethnicity (3).

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The Loess Plateau, China

Explain the causes of soil degradation. Discuss the environmental and socio‑economic consequences of this process, together with management strategies.

1,4

neo-Maltusian vs anti-Malthusian(Ehrlich and Club of Rome vs Simon and Boserup)

Discuss the two opposing views of the relationship between population size and resource consumption.

2,1

One-Child Policy, China, 1979Example: Kerala, India (fertility rate 1.7)

Evaluate an example of an anti‑natalist policy.

2,2

Ethiopia

Trade may or may not reduce disparities in wealth and development.

2,3

Bolivia

Example of a place with economic water scarcity (where water is available locally but not accessible for human, institutional or financial capital reasons).

2,4

China: Still coal, more HEPUK: More wind, more nuclear

(Norway: HEP 99% of electricity)

Explain the changes in the energy mix for many countries (2).

3,1

Rural-urban migration in ChinaForced migration in Darfur, Sudan

Evaluate internal (national) migration in terms of its geographic (socio‑economic, political and environmental) impacts at their origins and destinations (2).

3,2

Jamaica

Access to markets may or may not reduce disparities in wealth and development.

3,3

Amazon

Explain the concept and importance of biodiversity in tropical rainforests. Examine the causes and consequences of reduced biodiversity in this biome.

3,4

Western governments want to reduce their dependence on unstable regimes in the Middle East.

Tar sand in Canada.Drilling in Antarctica.

Examine the geopolitical impacts of these changes in the patterns and trends in the production and consumption of

oil (3).

4,1

Mexicans to the USA

Evaluate international migration in terms of its geographic (socio‑economic, political and environmental) impacts at their origins and destinations.

4,2

Favelas in Rio de Janeiro

Explain disparities and inequities that occur within countries resulting from residence, parental education, income, employment (formal and informal) and land

ownership.

4,3

Changes in the Earth’s orbit (Milankovitch cycles)Volcanic eruptions

Variations in solar output (sunspots)

Natural causes of climate change (3).

4,4

Paper recycling in China

Evaluate a strategy at a local or national scale aimed at reducing the consumption of one resource.

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JapanExample Norway

Examine the impacts of an ageing population.

5,2

Tajikistan

Example where remittances account for approximately 50% of GDP.

5,3

Excellent Development, Machakos, Kenya

Evaluate a management strategy at a local or national scale designed to achieve environmental sustainability.

5,4

Exxon Valdez, Alaska, 1989Shell in the Niger delta, Nigeria

The Cofans in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Examine the environmental impacts of the changes in the patterns and trends in the production and

consumption of oil (3).