Unit 5: HL extension · Global political challenges
Topic 5.2: Environment Questions
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Analyse how an environment case study can be used to answer a Paper 3 question.
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Explain why environmental governance often struggles to be effective.
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Explain why climate change is a collective action problem.
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Explain why conservation can conflict with development for poorer countries.
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Explain why environmental harm is described as an issue of justice.
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Discuss the view that those who cause environmental harm have a duty to compensate those who suffer it.
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Discuss the view that voluntary agreements are inadequate to address climate change.
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Discuss the view that poorer countries should not be expected to conserve nature at the expense of their own development.
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Discuss the view that environmental problems can only be solved by binding global rules.
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Discuss the view that environmental challenges cannot be solved effectively without also being solved fairly.
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Recommend how global environmental governance could be made more effective.
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To what extent is the conservation of global ecosystems a shared responsibility of all states? (synthesise across the challenge)
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Recommend how the international community should strengthen action on climate change.
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Using a case study you have studied, recommend how an environmental challenge should be addressed.
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To what extent is it possible to achieve justice for future generations in environmental decisions? (synthesise across the challenge)
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To what extent do environmental challenges reveal the limits of a world divided into sovereign states? (synthesise across the challenge)
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Recommend how a poorer country should balance conservation of an important ecosystem with its need to develop.
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Recommend how environmental justice could be advanced in a case where harm falls on a vulnerable community.
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To what extent does climate change show the limits of a world of sovereign states? (synthesise across the challenge)
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To what extent does environmental governance show that non-state actors are as important as states? (synthesise across the challenge)
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