IB Geography • HL5

Human Development & Diversity

Development opportunities, changing identities and cultures, and the ways local actors adopt, adapt to or resist global interactions.

HL5 sequence

Follow the syllabus sections

Measurement, SDGs, empowerment, social enterprise and responsible production.

Diffusion, imperialism, glocalisation, cultural landscapes and diaspora.

Local production, migration politics, restricted freedoms and trade controls.

Actors embrace global connections because they create opportunity, choice or influence.

Global ideas and systems are reshaped to fit local cultures, priorities and power relations.

States, communities and civil society restrict or challenge selected global flows.