Unit 2 - Case studies and examples
Required case studies
Required case studies
- Case study of the response to climate change in one country focusing on the actions of non-governmental stakeholders
- geographyalltheway.com > Marks and Spencer and Greenpeace UK
Required detailed examples
Required detailed examples
- Detailed examples of two or more societies with contrasting vulnerability [Disparities in exposure to climate change risk and vulnerability]
- geographyalltheway.com > Philippines, London and Indigenous Arctic Communities
Suggested examples [as an absolute minimum]
Suggested examples [as an absolute minimum]
- Unit 2.1
- Unit 2.2
- Changing sea levels
- Incidence and severity of drought
- Incidence and severity of hurricanes
- Spatial changes in biomes
- Animal migration patterns that have changed
- Changes to agriculture, including crop yields, limits of cultivation and soil erosion
- Health hazards caused by climate change
- Migration caused by climate change
- Changes to ocean transport routes caused by climate change
- Unit 2.3
- Government-led adaptation strategies
- Government-led mitigation strategies
- Global geopolitical efforts, recognizing that the source/s of greenhouse gas emissions may be spatially distant from the countries most impacted
- Carbon emissions offsetting
- Carbon emission trading
- Geo-engineering mitigation strategies
- Civil society strategies to address global climate change
- Corporate strategies to address global climate change