DP Geography Paper 1 Options

Freshwater Drainage Basins

Geophysical Hazards

Leisure, Tourism, and Sport

Urban Environments

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Food and Health

Extreme Environments

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Hazard Risk and Vulnerability- contemporary case studies

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Future possibilities for management of, and participation in, tourism and sport at varying scales

The consequences of unsustainable touristic growth in rural and urban tourism hotspots

possible management options to increase site resilience

including the concept of carrying capacity

The concept of sustainable tourism, including the growth of ecotourism


One case study of sustainable tourism in one low-income country

2015 Earthquake in Nepal

The growing influence of global climate change on the prevalence of extreme weather or geophysical hazards

Earthquakes in Haiti 2010/2021

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Site, function, and land use

Vulnerable populations have exposure to the effects of geophysical hazards due to unequal wealth distributions putting them in areas that are more likely to have landslides, tsunamis, etc.

Settlement hierarchies

: Butller's model of the development of tourist areas1

Megacities

Urbanization and migration

Geophysical hazard adaptation through government planning

Sustainable city features

Gentrifcation

Urban decay

Urban planning models

Burgess- concentric zone

Central American Landslides

Hoyt-Sector model

Ullman Harris- Multiple nuclei model

Brooklyn, NYC

MDC Case Studies

Rio de Janiero, Favelas

Adaptation in Japan

LDC Case Studies

Why some places are considered to be extreme environments

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Where and how are cities designed and built?

NASA prediction: DESDynI

CBD; Core Periphery Models

Washington, DC (Northeast, Navy Yard- Nats Park)

The Whole Foods Effect

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Tourism and Sport at the international scale

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Food Insecurity

Documentary: Food Evolution

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Circular Economy

Global-scale distribution of cold and high altitude environments (polar, glacial areas, periglacial areas, high mountains in non-polar places)

hot arid environments (hot deserts and semi-arid areas)

TedTalk: A recipe for cutting food waste

Famine-stricken Country

Olympics- Rio, Tokyo, London, Beijing

Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia

The changing distribution of extreme environments over time, including the advance and retreat of glaciers and natural desertification

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importance of travel to Kenya's development

  1. Tourism and sport at the local and national scale

Food production systems leading to variations in food consumption

Informal economies- Lagos, Nigeria

How physical processes create unique landscapes in extreme environments

Newly industrialized country squatter settlements- Turkey

Glacial processes of erosion, transport and deposition, and landscape features in glaciated areas, including cirques/corries, lakes, pyramidal peaks/horns, arêtes, glacial troughs; lateral, medial and terminal moraine and erratics

Periglacial processes of freeze-thaw, solifluction and frost heave, and periglacial landscape features, including permafrost, thermokarst, patterned ground and pingos

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Factors affecting the geography of a national sports league, including the location of its hierarchy of teams and the distribution of supporters
NBA supporters by County
basketball NBA support :

Human and physical factors explaining the growth of rural and urban tourism hotspots including the role of primary and secondary touristic resources

Book: Omnivore's Dilemma

Documentary: Food Inc.

How ugly, unloved food can change the world | TED Talk

Olympics Project (Summative Assessment)Design Your Own Olympic Bid- MP

Flooding and Flood Mitigation

Flooding and Urbanization

impacts of tourism

Vertical Forests

Bosco Verticale, Milan

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Tokyo (connections to population change- ageing populations)

​"Aglaya" Switzerland

Large-scale sporting, musical, cultural or religious festivals as temporary sites of leisure and their associated costs and benefits

BURNING MAN!!!

BM Website - Lots of resources

NYC (connections to urban sprawl, urban stress)

Hong Kong (globalization, power)

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