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
Kenyan example of sustainable / eco tourism. Masaai and Safari national parks
Audio - Example of a sustainable tourism project
Article; How Kenya is leading the way
Example of an eco sustainable project
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
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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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- 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
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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
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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