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• Opportunities and Risks — Is it rational to live in hazard- prone areas?

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  Tectonic hazards: earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis

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  Human responses: mitigation, preparedness, recovery

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  Social-economic factors influencing settlement

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• Managing River and Coastal Environments – A continuing challenge

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  River systems: drainage basins, erosion, transport, deposition, landforms

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  Coastal systems: wave action, coastal landforms, erosional/depositional features

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  Human impacts: hard/soft engineering, land reclamation, pollution

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• Changing Industrial Location – How and why does it change over space and time?

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  Location factors: raw materials, labour, transport, markets

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  Case studies: iron & steel industry; IT industry relocation

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• Building a Sustainable City – Are environmental conservation and urban development mutually exclusive?

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  Smart-city planning, green infrastructure, energy‑efficient buildings

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  Transport, waste, water management

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• Combating Famines – Is technology a panacea for food shortage?

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  Root causes: climate, soil, governance, conflict

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  Technological solutions: irrigation, GM crops, farming systems

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• Disappearing Green Canopys – Who should pay for the massive deforestation in rainforest regions?

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  Tropical rainforest ecosystems, biodiversity

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  Causes: logging, agriculture, urbanisation

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  Sustainable forestry, REDD+, eco‑tourism

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• Global Warming – Is it fact or fiction?

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  Climate systems, greenhouse gases, feedback loops

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  Evidence: temperature records, ice cores, sea‑level rise

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  Mitigation & adaptation, international agreements, controversies

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• Dynamic Earth

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  Plate tectonics

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  Rock cycle

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  Mass movements

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  Natural disasters

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• Weather and Climate

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  Atmospheric processes

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  Climate zones

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  Typhoons, droughts

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  Climate change

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• Transport

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  Transport systems

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  Flows, accessibility

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  Impacts on development

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• Regional Study of the Zhujiang (Pearl River) Delta

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  Physical and human geography of PRD region

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  Industrialisation

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  Urbanisation

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  Environmental issues

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