Geography for the IB Diploma. Patterns and Change: Учебник за International Baccalaureate Diploma

This lively coursebook covers the four compulsory topics of the Core theme, Patterns and Change, in the Geography syllabus for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme. It is written in clear, accessible English by a highly experienced author and former head of Geography at a major IB school in the UK. The coursebook contains: key questions outlining the issues for each topic; case studies selected from every continent; activities and geographical skills guidance; discussion points and research ideas; integrated Theory of Knowledge links; examination-style questions; definitions of key terms and useful web links.

Учебната система Geography for the IB Diploma се състои от:

• учебник Global Interactions
• учебник Patterns and Change

Изброените компоненти от учебната система се продават поотделно. За да закупите някой от тях, последвайте съответния линк.

Introduction
Populations in transition

• Population change
• Case study - Demographic transitions in England and Wales
• Responses to high and low fertility
• Case study - The impact of a young population in The Gambia
• Case study - Populations ageing in Japan
• Case study - Pro-natalist policy in France
• Case study - Anti-natalist policy in China
• Movement responses - migration
• Case study - Tibet's changing ethnic balance
• Gender and change

Disparities in wealth and development

• Measurements of regional and global disparities
• Origin of disparities
• Case study - Regional contrasts in Brazil
• Case study - Brazil: Marching for Real Land Reform
• Disparities and change
• Case study - Life expectancy in Russia
• Reducing disparities
• Case study - Bolivia: resource nationalisation
• Case study - The emergence of China as a major trading nation
• Case study - The trade in tea
• Case study - Local democracy in Kerala
• Case study - Mauritania - struggling to develop

Patterns in environmental quality and sustainability

• Atmosphere and change
• Soil and change
• Case study - Australia: soil degradation and carbon farming
• Case study - Sustainable farming in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Water and change
• Case study - Mali: WaterAid in action
• Case study - Vadodara City, India
• Case study - Ethiopia
• Biodiversity and change
• Sustainability and the environment
• Case study - Management strategy: Namibia's community conservancies

Patterns in resource consumption

• Patterns of resource consumption
• Changing patterns of energy consumption
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• The changing importance of other energy sources
• Case study - China: The Three Gorges Dam
• Case study - The USA: a Solar Grand Plan
• Conservation strategies
• Case study - The EU's Common Fisher Policy
• Case study - Beijing
• Case study - Germany: satisfying energy demand in a sustainable way

Index
Acknowledgements