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Geography

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

Tectonic hazards: earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis

Human responses: mitigation, preparedness, recovery

Social-economic factors influencing settlement

Managing River and Coastal Environments – A continuing challenge

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

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

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

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

Location factors: raw materials, labour, transport, markets

Case studies: iron & steel industry; IT industry relocation

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

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

Transport, waste, water management

Combating Famines – Is technology a panacea for food shortage?

Root causes: climate, soil, governance, conflict

Technological solutions: irrigation, GM crops, farming systems

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

Tropical rainforest ecosystems, biodiversity

Causes: logging, agriculture, urbanisation

Sustainable forestry, REDD+, eco‑tourism

Global Warming – Is it fact or fiction?

Climate systems, greenhouse gases, feedback loops

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

Mitigation & adaptation, international agreements, controversies

Dynamic Earth

Plate tectonics

Natural disasters

Weather and Climate

Atmospheric processes

Typhoons, droughts

Transport

Transport systems

Flows, accessibility

Impacts on development

Regional Study of the Zhujiang (Pearl River) Delta

Physical and human geography of PRD region

Industrialisation

Environmental issues

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