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GEO 220: World Regional Geography (Crain-Loudoun)

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Welcome

This research guide will connect you to information and resources for your GEO 200 research assignment. For additional assignment information, please refer to your Canvas course or contact your professor.

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Research Assignments

One month prior to the presentation of the poster you are to hand in a 5-page paper that provides the contents of the poster (a geographic topic of your choice which should be applied to a SPECIFIC region and/or regions in the world) in written form.

For more information, please review the Paper on Poster Topic document.

You will be asked to prepare an academic poster of a geographic topic of your choice which should be applied to a SPECIFIC region and/or regions in the world. 

For more information, please review the Academic Poster document.

Suggested Topics

  • Climate change and its effects (issues: drought; torrential rains; warming of northern areas)
  • Conflict area (issues, causes)
  • COVID and ongoing economic implications (supply issues)
  • Development (issues: literacy rates; poverty rates; GDP)
  • Disease (issues of communicable diseases and their spread/ non-communicable diseases and their spread)
  • Energy Supply (issues)
  • Environmental issues
  • Ethnic groups (issues of preservation of cultural heritage; of language; of territory; of self-governing)
  • Female empowerment (gender or equality  issues)
  • Food production (GMO foods and issues; organically grown food and issues; non-organically grown food and issues)
  • Fresh water (over-abundance, scarcity)
  • Human trafficking (issues)
  • Industries and economic implications (issues: outsourcing; child work)
  • Migration; migration flows
  • Natural resources and economic implications (problem: over-reliance on extractive industries)
  • Northern Sea Route (along the Arctic) and issues
  • Population density (issues: food scarcity; clean water scarcity)
  • Terrorism
  • Tourism (impact on landscape and people)
  • Trafficking of illegal substances (also: human tissues)
  • Transportation modes (water, rail, roads) and resultant issues
  • Urban areas (issues: over-crowdedness; slums; location in low-lying coastal areas)
  • Urbanization (growth of megacities and their issues)