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Diploma Geography
Internal Assessment
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Microclimates
Urban Environments
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1. Urban Populations
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Defining urbanization
Inward and outward movements
Natural change
Global megacities
2. Urban land use
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Movement of socio-economic groups since the 1980s
Economic activity in urban areas
Informal economy
The movement of economic activity in urban areas
3. Urban stress
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Urban microclimates
Environmental stress
Social stress
4. The Sustainable City
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The city as a system
Sustainable housing
Food and Health
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1. Health
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Variations in health
Measuring health
Prevention relative to treatment
2. Food
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Global availability of food
Areas of food sufficiency and deficiency
Recent famine case study
Production and markets
Addressing imbalances
Sustainable agriculture
3. Disease
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Global patterns of disease
The spread of disease
Geographic factors and impacts
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Case study: HIV/AIDS in Kenya
Case study: Malaria in Kenya
Hazards and disasters - risk assessment and response
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1. Characteristics of hazards
2. Vulnerability
3. Risk and risk assessment
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Analysis of risk
Hazard event prediction
4. Disasters
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Definition of disaster
Measuring disasters
Case study: Disaster due to natural hazard
Case study: Disaster due to a human-induced hazard
5. Adjustments and responses to hazards and disasters
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Responses to the risk of hazard events
Short, medium and long term responses after the event
Global Interactions
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1. Measuring global interactions
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Index of globalization: KOF
Global Core and Periphery
2. Changing space - the shrinking world
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The Friction of Distance
Extension and density of networks
ICT and Civil Society
ICT and the transmission and flow of images, ideas, information and finance
3. Economic interactions and flows
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Financial flows: Movements of capital
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Loans and debt repayment
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and repatriation of profits
Development aid
Remittances
Financial Flows: Organisations
Labour Flows
Information flows
4. Environmental interactions
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Food miles
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Food miles in depth
The effects of transnational manufacturing and services
Transboundary pollution
Homogenization of landscapes
Environmental awareness and civil society
5-6. The end of cultural diversity?
6. The death of the nation-state?
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An update on sovereignty for 2016
7. Globalization is dead, long live glocalization...?
7. Local against global: in practice and in theory
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