AC9HG10K04 Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor causes and effects of a change in an identified environment at a local, national or global scale, and strategies to manage sustainability

Elaborations

• • Elaboration 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)
• • Elaboration recognising and discussing the influence of people’s world views on how management strategies are developed and implemented
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration explaining how Traditional Owners, communities, developers, governments and non-government organisations use environmental, economic and social criteria, and consider trade-offs when making decisions