AC9HG9K08 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor the impacts of the production and consumption of goods on places throughout the world, and strategies to manage sustainability in these places

Elaborations

• • Elaboration examining the effects on people, places or environments of mining, farming, forestry or the production of manufactured goods
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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)