Expertly written, this lively, full colour book supports IB Diploma Programme students in Geography. The Course Companion covers the core course content and provides students with activities integrated with study and learning approaches, TOK, and the IB learner profile. It is full of case studies, extracts, quotations, statistics and activities to allow students to fully understand and discuss complex global issues. Examples, features, and case studies drawn from around the world will encourage students to develop an international perspective.

Core theme: Patterns of change

1. Populations in transition

2. Disparities in wealth and development

3. Patterns in environmental quality and sustainability

4. Patterns in resource consumption

Optional themes

5. Freshwater - issues and conflicts

6. Oceans and their coastal margins

7. Extreme environments

8. Hazards and disasters - risk assessment and response

9. Leisure, sport and tourism

10. The geography of food and health

11. Urban environments

Global interactions

12. Measuring global interactions

13. Changing space - the shrinking world

14. Economic interactions and flows

15. Environmental change

16. Sociocultural exchanges

17. Political outcomes

18. Global interactions at local level

Preparing for the Exam

19. Essay writing guidelines

20. Internal assessment

21. Skills for fieldwork

`All the necessary content is there in an accessible format, enriched with links to ToK and the requirements for the Internal Assessment. ' Richard Allaway, International School of Geneva and author of geographyalltheway.com