Roadmap

H481/01 Physical systems

Coastal landscapes

1.1.1 - Coastal systems, energy and sediment
1.1.1 - Coastal erosion and rock landforms
1.1.1 - Coastal deposition and sediment landforms
1.1.1 - Contrasting coastal landscape systems
1.1.1 - Sea-level change and inherited coasts
1.1.1 - Managing a coastal sediment system
1.1.1 - Port development and unintended coastal change

Glaciated landscapes

1.1.2 - Glacial systems and physical controls
1.1.2 - Glacier ice, types and movement
1.1.2 - Glacial erosion and mountain landforms
1.1.2 - Glacial deposits and contrasting landscapes
1.1.2 - Post-glacial climate and meltwater landforms
1.1.2 - Periglacial landscapes, climate and development
1.1.2 - Water development in a glaciated landscape

Dryland landscapes

1.1.3 - Dryland systems, aridity and physical controls
1.1.3 - Dryland erosion, weathering and landforms
1.1.3 - Dryland dunes, fans and bajadas
1.1.3 - Contrasting desert landscapes and UK relicts
1.1.3 - Inherited wet and cold dryland landforms
1.1.3 - Water supply and dryland landscape change
1.1.3 - Tourism and fragile dryland surfaces

Earth’s Life Support Systems

1.2 - Water and carbon as Earth systems
1.2 - Water-cycle inputs, pathways and outputs
1.2 - Carbon-cycle pathways and sequestration
1.2 - Amazon rainforest water and carbon cycles
1.2 - Arctic tundra water and carbon cycles
1.2 - Human disturbance, equilibrium and feedback
1.2 - Water and carbon change through time
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1.2 - Linked cycles and global management
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H481/02 Human interactions

Changing Spaces; Making Places

2.1 1.a - Local place profiles and changing connections
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2.1 2.a - Spaces, places and sense of place
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2.1 2.b; 2.1 6 - Representing and investigating places
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2.1 3.a; 2.1 3.c; 2.1 6 - Measuring and experiencing social inequality
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2.1 3.b - Economic change and unequal opportunities
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2.1 4.a - Structural economic change in the West Midlands
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2.1 5.a; 2.1 5.b - Placemaking and contested rebranding
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2.1 5.c - Rebranding Digbeth and judging its success
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Global Systems - Trade in the Contemporary World

2.2.1 1.a; 2.2.1 1.b - Global trade patterns and development
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2.2.1 2.a - Why trading networks have become more complex
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2.2.1 2.b - China and trading interdependence
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2.2.1 3.a - The United States and power in global trade
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2.2.1 3.a - Ethiopia and unequal access to world markets
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Global Systems - Global Migration

2.2.2 1.a; 2.2.2 1.b - Global migration patterns and development
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2.2.2 2.a - Why migration patterns have become more complex
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2.2.2 2.b - Mexico and migration interdependence
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2.2.2 3.a - Germany and power in the migration system
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2.2.2 3.a - Haiti and unequal power in migration
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Global Governance - Human Rights

2.2.3 1.a; 2.2.3 1.b - Human rights norms and global variations
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2.2.3 2.a - Gender inequality and women’s rights in Rwanda
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2.2.3 3.a; 2.2.3 3.b - Conflict, intervention and rights protection
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2.2.3 3.b - Human rights governance after Sierra Leone’s conflict
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2.2.3 4.a - Human rights governance and development in South Sudan
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Global Governance - Power and Borders

2.2.4 1.a - States, sovereignty and territorial integrity
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2.2.4 2.a - Challenges to sovereign state authority
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2.2.4 2.a; 2.2.4 3.a - Challenges to Ukraine’s sovereignty
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2.2.4 3.a; 2.2.4 3.b - Global governance of conflict in South Sudan
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2.2.4 4.a - Judging sovereignty and territorial governance
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H481/03

Climate Change

3.1 1.a - Reconstructing climate and explaining natural change
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3.1 2.a - Observed warming and the global energy balance
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3.1 2.a - Changing emissions in the United Kingdom and China
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3.1 3.a - How agendas shape the climate change debate
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3.1 4.a, 4.b - Climate models, feedbacks and unequal impacts
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3.1 4.c - Reducing emissions and evaluating mitigation
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3.1 4.c - Adaptation and contrasting climate responses
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3.1 5.a - International climate governance and carbon markets
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Disease Dilemmas

3.2 1.a - Classifying, mapping and tracing disease
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3.2 1.b, 1.c - Physical environments and disease after Pakistan floods
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3.2 2.a - Development, epidemiological transition and air pollution
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3.2 3.a - Malaria causes, impacts and responses in Nigeria
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3.2 3.b - Type 2 diabetes in the United Kingdom
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3.2 4.a, 4.b - Global outbreaks, mobility and coordinated responses
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3.2 5.a - Medicines from nature and sustainable plant trade
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3.2 5.b - Pharmaceutical power and disease eradication
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Exploring Oceans

3.3 1.a, 1.b - Ocean basins, water properties and circulation
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3.3 1.c, 2.a - Ocean ecosystems and Antarctic krill management
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3.3 2.b, 2.c - Ocean energy, minerals and resource governance
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3.3 3.a, 3.b, 3.c - Ocean pollution, oil spills and plastic gyres
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3.3 4.a, 4.b - Ocean warming, acidification and island adaptation
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3.3 4.c - A changing Arctic Ocean and its governance
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3.3 5.a, 5.b - Ocean trade, naval influence and territorial conflict
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3.3 5.c - Piracy, migration and hazardous ocean crossings
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Future of Food

3.4 1.a, 1.b - Food security, global patterns and food systems
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3.4 1.c, 2.a - Globalisation, land and competing theories of food security
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3.4 2.a, 3.a - Food insecurity, dryland vulnerability and pinchpoints
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3.4 3.b - Food-system shocks and Indigenous farming
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3.4 4.a - Environmental costs of increasing food production
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3.4 4.a - Food insecurity, diet and unequal health impacts
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3.4 5.a - Food geopolitics, trade and powerful organisations
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3.4 5.b - Strategies for a more secure food future
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Hazardous Earth

3.5 1.a - Continental drift and the evidence for plate tectonics
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3.5 1.b - Plate boundaries, processes and crustal features
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3.5 2.a - Volcanoes, magma and eruption styles
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3.5 2.b - Volcanic hazards and cascading impacts
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3.5 3.a, 3.b - Earthquake characteristics, landscapes and hazards
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3.5 4.a, 5.a - Volcanic risk and responses in Iceland and the Philippines
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3.5 4.b, 5.b - Earthquake risk and responses in Japan and Nepal
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3.5 5.c - Changing tectonic risk, resilience and recovery
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01, 02, 03 - Embedded geographical skills

Geographical skills in context

4.1(a), 4.1(c)–(e); 4.2(a)–(b) - Geographical evidence, maps and GIS
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4.1(b), 4.1(f); 4.3(a)–(c) - Qualitative evidence and place representations
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4.4(d) - Sampling, measurement and uncertainty
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4.4(a) - Describing geographical distributions
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4.4(b)–(c) - Correlation and Spearman’s rank
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4.4(b) - Chi-squared and geographical association
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4.4(b) - Comparing groups with Mann–Whitney and t-tests
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4.1(c)–(e); 1.1.1–1.1.3 5; 1.2 5; 2.1 6 - Geographical charts, rates and budgets
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04/05 - Investigative geography

Investigative geography

2d; 3i Section 1; 5(a)–(b) - Independent questions and research context
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5(c)–(e); 3i Section 2 - Field methods, sampling and ethical collection
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5(f), 5(i); 3i Section 3 - Presenting investigation evidence
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5(f)–(h), 5(k); 3i Section 4 - Analysing and explaining investigation findings
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5(j)–(k); 3i Section 5 - Evidence-based conclusions and evaluation
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2d; 3i Section 6; 4e - Communicating and authenticating independent work
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