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        • 1. Measuring Food & Health
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        • 1. The variety of urban environments
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        • 3. Urban stresses
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  • Home
    • IB Geography Intro
    • Assessment Outline >
      • Mark Bands
      • Command Terms
    • Concepts in IB Geography
  • IB Geo Units
    • The Core >
      • 1. Changing Population >
        • 1. Population and economic development patterns
        • 2. Changing population & places
        • 3. Challenges & opportunities
      • 2. Global Climate Change >
        • 1. Causes of climate change
        • 2. Consequences of climate change
        • 3. Responding to climate change
      • 3. Global Resource Consumption >
        • 1. Global trends in consumption
        • 2. The Impacts of changing trends in resource consumption
        • 3. Resource stewardship
      • Infographic Analysis
    • Options >
      • B. Oceans & Coastal Margins >
        • 1. Ocean–atmosphere interactions
        • 2. Oceans & Coastal Places
        • 3. Managing coastal margins
        • 4. Ocean management futures
      • D: Geophysical Hazards >
        • 1. Geophysical systems
        • 2. Geophysical Hazard Risks
        • 3. Hazard Risk and Vulnerability
        • 4. Future Resilience and Adaptation
      • E. Leisure, Tourism & Sport >
        • 1. Changing leisure patterns
        • 2. Tourism and sport at the local and national scale
        • 3. Tourism & sport at the international scale
        • 4. Managing tourism and sport for the future
      • F. Food & Health >
        • 1. Measuring Food & Health
        • 2. Food Systems & Spread of Disease
        • 3. Stakeholders in Food & Health
        • 4. Future Health & Food Secuirty
      • G. Urban Environments >
        • 1. The variety of urban environments
        • 2. Changing urban systems
        • 3. Urban stresses
        • 4. Sustainable Cities
    • Global Interactions >
      • 4. Power, Place and Networks >
        • 1. Global interactions and global power
        • 2. Global networks and flows
        • 3. Human and physical influences on global interactions
      • 5. Human development and diversity >
        • 1. Development opportunities
        • 2. Changing identities and cultures
        • 3. Local responses to global interactions
      • 6. Global risks and resilience >
        • 1. Geopolitical and economic risks
        • 2. Environmental risks
        • 3. Local and global resilience
    • Case Studies
    • Internal Assessment >
      • Ko Samet Introduction
      • Butlers Model
      • Fieldwork Prep
      • Report Prep Resources
    • Geographic Skills >
      • GPS - Geographic Proficiency Skills
      • Map Skills
      • Written Skills
      • Analytical Skills
      • Field Work Skills
    • Revision
  • MYP I&S
    • Y9 I&S >
      • Unit 1: Sustainable Futures >
        • 1. Introducing Sustainability
        • 2. Visioning Our Future
        • 3. Creating Sustainable Futures
      • Unit 2: Money Matters
      • Unit 3: Conflict
      • Y9 Current Events
    • Y10 I&S >
      • Castaway - Intro Activity
      • Unit 1: Oceans - The Big Blue
      • Unit 2: It's All Connected
      • Unit 3: Social Enterprises
      • Unit 4: Catalysts for Change
      • Unit 5: IDU - Expressions for Change
      • UN SDGs
      • Current Events
  • Geo@NIST
    • Support Resources
    • Extended Essay
    • Geo Inspiration
    • Why Geography?
  • Contact

1. Development Opportunities

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Syllabus Outline: Ways of supporting the processes of human development

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Key Terms

Development Indicators: Validity & Reliability

The multidimensional process of human development and ways to measure it:

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​   Activity:
 Human Development Introduction
   Activity: Measuring human development
   
Article: Middle classes drive up life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa
   
   


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Validity and reliability of development indicators and indices, including the human development index (HDI) and gender inequality index (GII)

The UN HDI

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   Webpage: Explore the UN HDI
   Webpage: What is the HDI?
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   Wiki: The Un HDI

The Gender Inequality Index

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   Webpage: Gender inequality index
   Map: The best & worst countries for gender equality
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The UN Sustainable Development Goals

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   Website: UN SDG knowledge platform
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   Website: Un SDG data atlas
   Visuals: UN SDG Progress and ranking
   PDF: Evaluating progress on the UN SDGs
   PDF: Thai sufficiency and the SDGs

Empowering Woman & Indigenous Groups

Detailed illustrative examples of affirmative action to close the development gap

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    Activity: Empowerment & affirmative action notes

Empowering Woman

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Rwanda Case Study

The Greenbelt Movement - Gender and Sustainable Development

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   Website: The greenbelt movement
   Wiki: The green belt movement
​   Webpage: Nobel peace prize citation

Empowering Indigenous Groups

The Maori in Kaikoura, New Zealand

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The Importance of Social Entrepreneurship Approaches

The importance of social entrepreneurship approaches for human development:

Note Sheet
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Microfinance

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   Website: Kiva 
   Webpage: About Kiva
   Webpage: The journey of a Kiva loan
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   Act!: Make a loan, change a life

Fairtrade

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   Webpage: Fairtrade foundation
   NIST Example: FairNIST Coffee
   NIST Example: Priceless - Organic rice
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   Article: Fairtrade only really benefits supermarkets

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   Website: Fairtrade foundation
   Article: Fairtrade only really benefits supermarkets
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   Nist Example: FairNIST Coffee
   NIST Example: Priceless
   Thai example: Doi Tung - From opium to coffee

TNC Corporate Social Responsibility

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   Website: Patagonia CSR 
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   Website: Patagonia's revolutionary CSR approach

   Article: 38 charged with Rana Plaza deaths
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   Article: 5 years on safety hangs in the balance
   

Global Corporate Agreements

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