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Table of Contents

Option A Freshwater - Drainage basins
1: Drainage basin hydrology and geomorphology
2: Flooding and flood mitigation
3: Water scarcity and water quality
4: Water management futures
Option B Oceans and coastal margins
1: Ocean-atmosphere interactions
2: Interactions between oceans and the coastal places
3: Managing coastal margins
4: Ocean management futures
Option C Extreme environments
1: The characteristics of extreme environments
2: Physical processes and landscapes
3: Managing extreme environments
4: Extreme environments' futures
Option D Geophysical hazards
1: Geophysical systems
2: Geophysical hazard risks
3: Hazard risk and vulnerability
4: Future resilience and adaptation
Option E Leisure, tourism and sport
1: Changing leisure patterns
2: Tourism and sport at the local and national scale
3: Tourism and sport at the international scale
4: Managing tourism and sport for the future
Option F The geography of food and health
1: Measuring food and health
2: Food systems and the spread of disease
3: Stakeholders in food and health
4: Future health and food security sustainability
Option G Urban environments
1: The variety of urban environments
2: Changing urban systems
3: Urban environmental and social stresses
4: Building sustainable urban systems for the future
Unit 1 Changing population
1: Population and economic development patterns
2: Changing populations and places
3: Challenges and opportunities
Unit 2 Global climate - vulnerability and resilience
1: The causes of global climate change
2: The consequences of global climate change
3: Responding to climate change
Unit 3 Global resource consumption and security
1: Global trends in consumption
2: Impacts of changing trends in resource consumption
3: Resource stewardship
Unit 4 Power, places and networks
1: Global interactions and global power
2: Global networks and flows
3: Human and physical influences on global interactions
Unit 5 Human development and diversity
1: Development opportunities
2: Changing identities and cultures
3: Local responses to global interactions
Unit 6 Global risks and resilience
1: Geopolitical and economic risks
2: Environmental risks
3: Local and global resilience

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