1. Global trends in consumption

Syllabus Link: How global development processes affect         

​                        resource availability and consumption

Progress towards poverty reduction

   Activities: Global reduction in poverty activity sheet
   Visual: History of world poverty
   Report: UN MDGs - Progress on Poverty
   Infographic: Taking on inequality

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Progress towards poverty reduction from adorngeo

Rise of the New Global Middle Class

     Data Visualization: The swelling middle class
     Reading: The expansion of the global middle class
     Article: MICs closing gap on HICs

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Measuring Trends in Resource Consumption

Ecological Footprints

   Calculate your own ecological footprint:
      - Footprint calculator: WWF footprint calculator
      - Global Footprint Network: Ecological footprint explorer
   Rankings: Ecological footprints per capita
   Website: Global footprint network

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Ecological footprints introduction from adorngeo

Global Patterns & Trends in Resource Consumption

 
  Reading: 15 000 scientists issue dire warning for humanity
  Reading: The state of consumption today
  Statistics: Fast facts on resource consumption

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Water Consumption

  Activities: Note taking on water consumption
  Website: Water footprint comparison
  Website: Water footprint

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Trends in water consumption from adorngeo

Land & Food

    Activity: Patterns & trends in the consumption of food
    Article: The challenge of changing diets
    Research: Patterns & trends in food consumption
    Research: Global nutrition transition

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    PPT: What the world eats
    Visualization: What the world eats
    Podcast: How middle income countries became fat

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Energy

   
​   Article: Fossil fuel burning to reach a record high   
   Homework activity: Oiligarchy recording sheet   
   Simulation: Oiligarchy oil impacts

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   Activity: Changing importance of other energy sources
   Activity: Patterns & trends in Energy
   Resource: SDG 7 - affordable & clean energy
   Resource: Energy access 2017

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Changing importance of other energy sources from adorngeo