Unit 1: Global Challenges (AS)
The meaning, causes, impacts and management of global challenges. How we can influence global challenges through our lives. There are two compulsory topics that form this unit.
Topic 1: WORLD AT RISK
Includes an introduction to a range of global natural hazards which threaten some areas of the world more than others and then focuses on climate change and global warming, seen by many as our greatest environmental challenge.
Need to start with a look at what we mean by risk. Danny O Callaghan has produced some useful resources in this particular area.
Topic 2: GOING GLOBAL (link fixed)
Brings together today's rapid economic changes which are impacting unfairly on people across the globe, and the related international issues of population change and migration.
St. Kilda - want to develop this as an idea. Have a map of the islands, and several books, and these are supplemented by some great website resources, such as the Wee St. Kilda guide.
Philippe Legrain's OPEN WORLD is an important book too...
