Part 1: Core themes Patterns and change

1. Populations in transition
Population change
Responses to high and low fertility
Movement responses-Migration
Gender and Change
2. Disparities in wealth and development
Measurements of regional and global disparities
Origin of disparities
Disparities and change
Reducing disparities
3. Patterns in environmental quality and sustainability
Atmosphere
Soil and change
Water and change
Biodiversity and change
Sustainability and the environment
4. Patterns in resource consumption
Patterns of resource consumption
Changing patterns of energy consumption
Conservation strategies
Part 2: Optional themes
Option A: Freshwater
1. The water system
The hydrological cycle
The water balance
2. Drainage basins and flooding
Drainage basins
Discharge
Hydrographs
Floods
3. Management issues and strategies
Dams and reservoirs
Floodplain management
Groundwater management
Freshwater and wetland management
Irrigation and agriculture
4. Competing demands for water
Conflicts at the local or national scale
Conflicts at the international scale
Option C: Extreme Environments

1. Challenging environments
Global distribution of extreme environments
Population
2. The physical characteristics of extreme
environments
Glacial environment
Periglacial environment
Hot, arid environments (hot deserts and semi-arid areas)
3. Opportunities and challenges for management
Agriculture
Mineral extraction
Tourism
4. Sustainability
Human activity
Impact
Option F: The geography of food and health
1. Health
Variations in health
Measuring health
Prevention relative to treatment
2. Food
Global availability of food
Areas of food sufficiency and deficiency
Case study
Production and markets
Addressing imbalances
Sustainable agriculture
3. Disease
Global patterns of disease
The spread of disease
Geographic factors and impacts
Part 3: Global Interactions
1. Measuring global interactions
Global participation
Global core and periphery
2. Changing space the shrinking world
Time-space convergence and the reduction in friction of
distance
Extension and density of networks
3. Economic interactions and flows
Financial flows
Labour flows
Information flows

4. Environmental change
Degradation through raw material production
The effects of transnational manufacturing and services
Trans boundary pollution
Homogenization of landscapes
5. Sociocultural exchanges
Cultural diffusion: the process
Consumerism and culture
Sociocultural integration
6. Political outcomes
Loss of sovereignty
Responses