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Geography 7-10

Environmental Change and Management

Investigative study
Select ONE type of environment in Australia as the context for a comparative study with at least ONE other country.
Students:

• investigate the biophysical processes essential to the functioning of the selected environment

- explanation of how the biophysical processes operating in the environment maintain its functioning F

• investigate the causes, extent and consequences of the environmental change (ACHGK073)

- examination of the causes and extent of change to the environment in each country M GS
- analysis of the short and long-term consequences of the environmental change in each country

• investigate the management of the environmental change, for example: (ACHGK074, ACHGK075)

- discussion of the factors influencing the management responses in each country eg worldviews, competing demands, technology, climate change
- comparison and evaluation of the effectiveness of the management responses in achieving environmental sustainability
- proposal of how individuals could contribute to achieving environmental sustainability for the environment in each country