(Regional Questions) (5pts each)
“only answer 2 of them”
1-What are different mechanisms for water access in the Middle East and North Africa? What are the costs and limitations to each? How can states use water to control other states?
2- How specifically are the changes brought through global warming a threat to the low-lying atolls of the Pacific? What are the economic and cultural effects of this process?
3- Using a geopolitical approach to discuss the cultural and political economic factors into Russia’s recent interventions in Ukraine. What have been Russia’s methods of working around a dissolving alliance with Ukraine?
4- How does looking at the geography of e-waste complicate the narrative of rich countries dumping on poor ones? How does the simple narrative help create policies that miss the variabilities within the e-waste trade.
(Cross-regional Questions) (10 pts each)
“only answer 2 of them”
1- Compare and contrast the drivers of deforestation in three different regions we have covered in this course. What are local, state and international pressures on trees, and what are the effects of that on local populations? What have been efforts to mitigate the loss of forests in each of the three regions?
2- Compare and contrast the legacies of the Cold War in three different regions we have covered in this course. What have been the specific impacts and why did the Cold War play out in that region in the specific way that it did?
3- Compare and contrast the issue of un-natural disasters in wealthy versus poor countries. Why are people vulnerable to injury and death? Make sure you compare a natural event that took place in a more developed country to one in a less-developed country.
