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The Conversation - sustainability collection

Text The Conversation - sustainability collection

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This is a series of short journalistic articles written by academic experts and researchers that provide facts, commentary, and independent analysis about sustainability. The articles support student investigations and in-depth studies of issues related to sustainability in geography and English. The collection is regularly updated with new contributions and contains over 80 articles about sustainability as a concept, and also the various component environmental, social and economic issues of sustainability, such as transport, agriculture, urban planning, energy pricing and supply, climate change and others.

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Geography 7-10 / Year 10 / Knowledge and understanding
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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
ScOT terms
  • Attitudes
  • Environmental management
  • Environmental stewardship
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Geography / Year 10 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding
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Environmental world views of people and their implications for environmental management (ACHGK071)

Elaborations
  • describing the role of people’s environmental world views (for example, human-centred and earth-centred) in producing different attitudes and approaches towards environmental management
  • comparing the differences in people’s views about the causes of environmental issues in Australia and across the world
  • 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
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural understanding
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
ScOT terms
  • Attitudes
  • Environmental management
  • Environmental stewardship
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Geography 7-10 / Year 10 / Knowledge and understanding
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causes and effects of a change in an identified environment at a local, national or global scale, and strategies to manage sustainability (AC9HG10K04)

Elaborations
  • identifying a context to be studied, describing the causes of the environmental change and impacts for the sustainability of its functions (resource, service or spiritual)
  • recognising and discussing the influence of people’s world views on how management strategies are developed and implemented
  • proposing strategies to manage the effects of environmental change; for example, environmental strategies – establishing marine reserves, national parks, World Heritage Sites or ecosystem-based management; spatial strategies – corridors to preserve flora and fauna or urban planning to reduce energy consumption; holistic thinking – addressing past and present causes of environmental change
  • comparing management strategies in Australia with strategies in another country for human-induced environmental change, using criteria; for example, managing waste in Australia compared with India’s rubbish pickers or managing floods in Australia compared to floods in China
  • explaining how Traditional Owners, communities, developers, governments and non-government organisations use environmental, economic and social criteria, and consider trade-offs when making decisions
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
ScOT terms
  • Sustainable development
  • Environmental management
  • Climate change
  • Conservation (Environment)
  • Environmental impact
  • Human impact
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Geography 7-10 / Year 9 / Knowledge and understanding
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challenges to sustainable food production and food security in Australia and appropriate management strategies (AC9HG9K04)

Elaborations
  • examining environmental impacts of changes to food production causing a decline in the capacity of the land to provide agricultural products; for example, land and water degradation such as soil erosion, salinity and desertification, shortage of fresh water, competing land uses, climate change and pollution contribute to a decrease in food production
  • examining economic and social impacts of changes to food production; for example, competing land uses such as urban and industrial uses, and recreation activities
  • examining the impacts of modifications to biomes on the productivity and availability of staple resources for First Nations Australians; for example, reduced access to bush food such as myrrnong (yam daisy) in Victoria or cycads, bunya nuts and wongi plums in northern Australia
  • examining management strategies that improve food security; for example, efforts to reduce food wastage, government policies or trade barriers
  • explaining management strategies that restore the quality or diversity of agriculture in Australia; for example, improving the function of natural biomes and anthropogenic biomes, monitoring land management practices, improving the condition of the soil or building the capability of farmers
  • generating ideas for a strategy to expand agricultural production in Australia; for example, market bush food such as herbs and wattle seed, invest in research, support farm innovations or develop the expertise of farmers
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
ScOT terms
  • Sustainable development
  • Environmental management
  • Climate change
  • Soil degradation
  • Food availability
  • Water resources
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Geography / Year 9 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding
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Challenges to food production, including land and water degradation, shortage of fresh water, competing land uses, and climate change, for Australia and other areas of the world (ACHGK063)

Elaborations
  • exploring environmental challenges to food production from land degradation (soil erosion, salinity, desertification), industrial pollution, water scarcity and climate change
  • identifying the impacts on food production from competing land uses (for example, sacred sites, urban and industrial uses, mining, production of food crops for biofuels, production of food crops for livestock, and recreation (such as golf courses))
  • evaluating whether some ways of increasing food production could threaten sustainability
  • investigating the impacts of alterations of biomes on the productivity and availability of staple resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (for example, murnong or yam daisy in Victoria)
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
ScOT terms
  • Environmental management
  • Water resources
  • Climate change
  • Soil degradation
  • Water quality
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Geography / Year 10 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding
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The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ approaches to custodial responsibility and environmental management in different regions of Australia (ACHGK072)

Elaborations
  • researching the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in environmental management
  • explaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander models of sustainability that contribute to broader conservation practices
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural understanding
ScOT terms
  • Attitudes
  • Environmental management
  • Environmental stewardship
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • Australia
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Geography 7-10 / Year 10 / Knowledge and understanding
Curriculum content descriptions

First Nations Australians’ approaches to custodial responsibility and environmental management in different regions of Australia (AC9HG10K03)

Elaborations
  • identifying the influence of cultural values on how First Nations Australians manage environments (for example, continuity of cultural practices, management or development of Country/Place, and land tenure systems) and explaining custodial responsibilities for a Country/Place
  • discussing the role of First Nations Australian Park Rangers and their cultural knowledge and practices in the management of their Country/Place and environments
  • explaining First Nations Australians’ models of sustainability, which contribute to broader conservation practices; for example, obligations to Country/Place, land management and care practices such as cleaning up the land and fire management, removal of weeds and rubbish, protection of threatened species, and capacity building within their communities
General capabilities
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural Understanding
ScOT terms
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • Attitudes
  • Environmental management
  • Land custodianship
  • Environmental stewardship
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Geography / Year 10 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding
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The application of geographical concepts and methods to the management of the environmental change being investigated (ACHGK074)

Elaborations
  • discussing the influence of people’s world views on programs for the management of the environmental change being investigated
  • proposing geographical management strategies for the environmental change being investigated (for example, establishing reserves and corridors to preserve biodiversity (a spatial strategy), ecosystem-based management (an environmental strategy), urban planning to reduce energy consumption (a spatial strategy), and addressing underlying as well as immediate causes of environmental change (holistic thinking))
  • comparing strategies in Australia and another country to manage the environmental change being investigated
  • exploring the variety of solutions to similar environmental changes in different places
  • discussing how land management agencies are increasingly working with traditional owners to manage environmental change and challenges
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms
  • Environmental management
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Geography 7-10 / Year 9 / Knowledge and understanding
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the effects on places of people’s travel, recreational, cultural or leisure choices, and the strategies for managing the impacts on these places (AC9HG9K06)

Elaborations
  • discussing the causes of the global growth of tourism and its environmental, economic or social impacts on places
  • explaining the impacts of people’s cultural and leisure choices on the sustainability of places popular with tourists (for example, visiting Mecca, Vatican City or Varanasi as religious pilgrimages) and predicting how space tourism or the impacts of COVID-19 may affect places
  • examining how management plans for national parks, such as Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, bring together cultural and scientific knowledge and experience, and examining governance and past experience to manage the effects of people’s cultural and leisure choices
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
ScOT terms
  • Sustainable development
  • Environmental management
  • Conservation (Environment)
  • Tourism
  • Travel
  • Lifestyles
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Geography 7-10 / Year 9 / Knowledge and understanding
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the impacts of the production and consumption of goods on places throughout the world, and strategies to manage sustainability in these places (AC9HG9K08)

Elaborations
  • examining the effects on people, places or environments of mining, farming, forestry or the production of manufactured goods
  • explaining the environmental effects of the production and distribution of consumer products and services on the places that produce the raw materials, the people who make the products, and the environments that receive the waste at the end of the products’ life; for example, the environmental effects of an e-waste supply chain from mining, production and sales to waste disposal
  • evaluating the environmental, economic and social impacts of the global oil supply chain, from where the resource is extracted, processed and sold, and how impacts could be sustainably managed in Australia and in West Asia
  • examining a strategy used by local, state or national governments to manage waste in one of Australia’s cities or regional urban centres, and identifying implications for sustainability (environmental, economic and social factors)
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
ScOT terms
  • Sustainable development
  • Environmental management
  • Manufacturing processes
  • Conservation (Environment)
  • Energy use
  • Human impact
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