Geography / Year 10 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding / Unit 1: Environmental change and management

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The application of environmental economic and social criteria in evaluating management responses to the change (ACHGK075)

Elaborations
  • explaining how communities and governments attempt to balance environmental, economic and social criteria in decisions on environmental programs, and the extent to which there can be trade-offs between them
  • discussing the extent to which achieving sustainability in one place should take account of the effects on environmental conditions in other places in the context of the environmental change being investigated
  • debating the practical and ethical dilemmas of national and international conservation programs aimed at the environmental change being investigated
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms

Environmental management,  Decision making

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