Geography 7-10 / Year 10 / Knowledge and understanding / Environmental change and management

Curriculum content descriptions

the environmental world views of people and their implications for environmental management (AC9HG10K02)

Elaborations
  • discussing the influence of people’s environmental world views (human-centred and earth-centred) regarding environmental management
  • comparing differences in peoples’ views about the causes of an environmental issue of personal, national and global importance
  • discussing whether environmental change is necessarily a problem that should be managed and explaining people’s choices of methods for managing or responding to environmental changes
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms

Attitudes,  Environmental management,  Environmental stewardship

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