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=Patterns in Environmental Quality and Sustainability=


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[[image:ibgeog2009:syllabus.png caption="syllabus.png"]]SYLLABUS REQUIREMENTS

 * ** • atmosphere and change**

//[|atmosphere]// || Describe the functioning of the atmospheric system in terms of the energy balance between solar and longwave radiation. Explain the changes in this balance due to external forcings (changes in solar radiation, changes in the albedo of the atmosphere and changes in the longwave radiation returned to space). Discuss the causes and environmental consequences of global climate change.
 * 4 hours** ||
 * ** • soil and change**

[|soil] || Explain the causes of soil degradation. Discuss the environmental and socio-economic consequences of this process, together with management strategies.
 * 4 hours** ||
 * ** • water and change**

[|water] || Identify the ways in which water is utilized at the regional scale. Examine the environmental and human factors affecting patterns and trends in physical water scarcity and economic water scarcity. Examine the factors affecting access to safe drinking water.
 * 5 hours** ||
 * ** • biodiversity and change**

//[|biodiversity]// || Explain the concept and importance of biodiversity in tropical rainforests. Examine the causes and consequences of reduced biodiversity in this biome.
 * 3 hours** ||
 * ** • sustainability and the environment**

//[|environ_sustain]// || Define the concept of environmental sustainability. Evaluate a management strategy at a local or national scale designed to achieve environmental sustainability
 * 3 hours** ||

[[image:ibgeog2009:resources.png caption="resources.png"]]TEXTBOOK RESOURCES
Planet Geography Second Edition The global heat budget and atmospheric circulation p. 352-358. || Planet Geography Second Edition - Water Use near the Aral Sea - A case study of natural resource management p. 74-78 || Chapter 6 Agricultural Impacts on the environment unintended change:deforestation in Agriculture and Food by Michael Raw and Peter Atkins p. 73-75 ||
 * ** • atmosphere and change** || Chapter 2 The atmosphere:energy in the system and Chapter 4 Global warming in Atmospheric Processes and Human Influence by Paul Warburton.
 * ** • soil and change** || Chapter 5 Soils and Agriculture Soil erosion and human factors in Agriculture and Food by Michael Raw and Peter Atkins p. 60-65. ||
 * ** • water and change** || Chapter 9 Water Quality and Pollution in Water Resources:Processes and Management by Victoria Bishop and Robert Prosser
 * ** • biodiversity and change** || Planet Geography Second Edition - High Energy Biomes Equatorial and Tropical Rainforests p. 294-296
 * ** • sustainability and the environment** || Chapter 8 Seeking Sustainability for UK Water Resources in Water Resources:Processes and Management by Victoria Bishop and Robert Prosser ||

[[image:ibgeog2009:resources.png caption="resources.png"]]ONLINE RESOURCES

 * Delicious/tag/ib_geog2009 atmosphere**
 * [|peopleandplanet.net > climate change > newsfile > climate change could lead to unprecedented migration] by knoreisch Jun 10, 2009 10:04 am Migration and displacement, caused by climate change, could vastly exceeds anything that has occurred before, according to a report launched today. Whole human populations may be forced to move for their own survival.
 * [|Geographische Rundschau international] by geographyalltheway May 25, 2009 7:11 am
 * [|Understanding Global Issues (UGI) - Unbiased, jargon-free background briefings and books about the big issues of our time] by geographyalltheway May 23, 2009 11:45 pm
 * [|NRDC: The Consequences of Global Warming] by natashawinnard2 Oct 26, 2008 6:50 am The Natural Resources Defense Council site
 * [|Health and Environmental Effects | Climate Change | U.S. EPA] by natashawinnard2 Oct 26, 2008 6:49 am US Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Effects
 * [|Atmosphere, Climate & Environment Information Programme] by natashawinnard2 Oct 26, 2008 5:36 am atmosphere and change - causes of global climate change
 * [|NASA Study Finds Increasing Solar Trend That Can Change Climate] by natashawinnard2 Oct 26, 2008 5:27 am changes in solar radiation since the 1970s
 * [|EO Newsroom: New Images - First Monthly CERES Global Longwave and Shortwave Radiation] by natashawinnard2 Oct 26, 2008 5:21 am Long and short wave radiation images
 * [|1483_218421.pdf (application/pdf Object)] by natashawinnard2 Oct 26, 2008 5:19 am image of short wave and long wave radiation[|Download]
 * [|Global Climate Animations] by natashawinnard2 Oct 26, 2008 5:01 am Net short wave and long wave diagrams at a global scale
 * [|An Inconvenient Truth] by geographyalltheway Jun 11, 2007 3:14 am


 * Delicious/tag/ib_geog2009 soil**
 * [|Geographische Rundschau international] by geographyalltheway May 25, 2009 7:11 am
 * [|Understanding Global Issues (UGI) - Unbiased, jargon-free background briefings and books about the big issues of our time] by geographyalltheway May 23, 2009 11:45 pm
 * [|Front Line Of Famine In Ethiopia Is the Soil - New York Times] by geographyalltheway Jan 27, 2009 11:13 pm Instead, relief workers are teaching people about the soil. They are trying to counter the land degradation, caused by too many farmers crowded onto too little turf, that has scarred much of Ethiopia's terrain.
 * [|BBC NEWS | Africa | Lesotho gardens relieve food crisis] by geographyalltheway Jan 16, 2009 12:31 am
 * [|BBC NEWS | Science] by geographyalltheway Jan 15, 2009 2:37 am The first detailed digital soil map of sub-Saharan Africa is to be created. The £12m ($17.5m) project will offer farmers in 42 countries a "soil health diagnosis" and advice on crop yields.
 * [|BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Boost for Africa's depleted soils] by geographyalltheway Sep 5, 2008 12:21 am A $180m (£90m) five-year project to revive sub-Saharan Africa's depleted soils has been launched in Nairobi.
 * [|YouTube - Improving Soils with Microbiology] by geographyalltheway Apr 17, 2008 8:41 am
 * [|Food and Soil - Arable Land, Grain Production, Fertilizer Use, and Soil Degradation - Earth Web Site] by geographyalltheway Mar 22, 2008 8:31 am
 * [|African Project To Revive Depleted Soils : TreeHugger] by geographyalltheway Feb 3, 2008 11:20 pm
 * [|Soil Health: You Can Help : TreeHugger] by geographyalltheway Jan 27, 2008 11:31 pm
 * [|BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Highlands and Islands | Boost for Africa's depleted soils] by geographyalltheway Jan 26, 2008 1:46 pm
 * [|The Dirt on Soil Erosion (TreeHugger)] by geographyalltheway Aug 31, 2007 1:30 pm
 * [|YouTube - soil erosion and conservation] by geographyalltheway May 9, 2007 1:18 pm
 * [|Afforestation in North China Helps Harness Desertification and Soil Erosion] by geographyalltheway May 1, 2007 10:08 am
 * [|YouTube - Living Labs: Yellow River Basin] by geographyalltheway Apr 30, 2007 4:47 am


 * Delicious/tag/ib_geog2009 water**
 * [|Geographische Rundschau international] by geographyalltheway May 25, 2009 7:11 am
 * [|Understanding Global Issues (UGI) - Unbiased, jargon-free background briefings and books about the big issues of our time] by geographyalltheway May 23, 2009 11:45 pm
 * [|BBC NEWS | Science] by geographyalltheway Feb 16, 2009 6:36 am Isa earns a hard living pushing a heavy water cart around the rutted streets of the suburbs of Nigeria's capital, Abuja. He is one of tens of thousands of water vendors who deliver jerry cans full of water to houses built without any kind of...
 * [|YouTube - GOOD: Water] by geographyalltheway Dec 1, 2008 6:27 am
 * [|Yellow River too polluted to drink - Telegraph] by geographyalltheway Nov 30, 2008 4:02 am China's heavy industries have tipped so much waste into the river that enormous stretches of it, amounting to over a third of its entire length, cannot be used at all anymore, either for drinking, fishing, farming or even in factories, accord...
 * [|One-third of China's Yellow river 'unfit for drinking or agriculture' | Environment | guardian.co.uk] by geographyalltheway Nov 30, 2008 4:02 am Severe pollution has made one-third of China's Yellow river unusable, according to new research.
 * [|MTV's Public Urination Water Conservation Ad : TreeHugger] by geographyalltheway Oct 15, 2008 8:01 am
 * [|geographyalltheway.com - AS / A2 / IB Geography - Managing the Supply and Demand for Water - USA] by geographyalltheway Oct 14, 2008 7:00 am
 * [|Revealed: the massive scale of UK's water consumption | Environment | The Guardian] by geographyalltheway Aug 20, 2008 12:14 pm Each Briton uses 4,645 litres a day when hidden factors are included
 * [|YouTube - GOOD: Water] by geographyalltheway Aug 1, 2008 10:26 am
 * [|One Minute Water Calculator] by LF124 Apr 23, 2008 12:04 am
 * [|Water Game] by geographyalltheway Jun 19, 2007 5:59 am
 * [|Waterfootprint.org: Water footprint and virtual water] by geographyalltheway Jun 5, 2007 12:59 am


 * Delicious/tag/ib_geog2009 biodiversity**
 * [|Geographische Rundschau international] by geographyalltheway May 25, 2009 7:11 am
 * [|Understanding Global Issues (UGI) - Unbiased, jargon-free background briefings and books about the big issues of our time] by geographyalltheway May 23, 2009 11:45 pm
 * [|Poor Brazilians rejoice as loggers return to pillage the rainforest | Environment | The Observer] by knoreisch Feb 17, 2009 10:56 am
 * [|Borneo's Rainforest — Photo Gallery — National Geograpic Magazine] by waterworlds.wordpress.com Oct 25, 2008 6:38 am Great 2008 article on deforestation with stunning / shocking photo gallery
 * [|geographyalltheway.com - AS / A2 / IB Geography - Sustainable Development] by geographyalltheway Oct 14, 2008 7:03 am
 * [|geographyalltheway.com - AS / A2 / IB Geography - Tropical Rainforest] by geographyalltheway Oct 14, 2008 7:02 am
 * [|geographyalltheway.com - AS / A2 / IB Geography - Tropical Rainforest] by geographyalltheway Oct 14, 2008 7:01 am


 * Delicious/tag/ib_geog2009 environ_sustain**
 * [|Geographische Rundschau international] by geographyalltheway May 25, 2009 7:11 am
 * [|Understanding Global Issues (UGI) - Unbiased, jargon-free background briefings and books about the big issues of our time] by geographyalltheway May 23, 2009 11:45 pm
 * [|Poor Brazilians rejoice as loggers return to pillage the rainforest | Environment | The Observer] by knoreisch Feb 17, 2009 10:56 am
 * [|UK's ex-science chief predicts century of 'resource' wars | Environment | The Guardian] by knoreisch Feb 17, 2009 10:35 am
 * [|HP Environmental Sustainability] by natashawinnard2 Oct 26, 2008 4:47 am Hewlett - Packard environmental sustainability programmes - local and national scale management strategies to achieve sustainable development
 * [|approach-environment.pdf (application/pdf Object)] by natashawinnard2 Oct 26, 2008 4:44 am Feb 2006 DFID's approach to the environment[|Download]
 * [|environment-factsheet.pdf (application/pdf Object)] by natashawinnard2 Oct 26, 2008 4:42 am DFID Environmental Sustainability factsheet and brief description of DFID case study environmental sustainability projects.[|Download]
 * [|Environmental sustainability] by natashawinnard2 Oct 26, 2008 4:35 am
 * [|geographyalltheway.com - AS / A2 / IB Geography - Sustainable Development] by geographyalltheway Oct 14, 2008 7:03 am