Key Concept: Time, place and space
Related Concept: Resources
Global Context: Scientific and technical innovation
Statement of inquiry:
Humans use resources in different ways around the world, and use innovative methods to be sustainable.
Related Concept: Resources
Global Context: Scientific and technical innovation
Statement of inquiry:
Humans use resources in different ways around the world, and use innovative methods to be sustainable.
What is sustainability and why is it important?
Watch the video and make notes upon the concepts and arguments presented.
Task
Research a current issue involving sustainability. This could include, but is not limited to:
Look at a specific issue within these broad topics and create a presentation that highlights the problems you encounter.
Your presentation should have:
Watch the video below for a sense of what can be achieved and for some greater depth of understanding.
Research a current issue involving sustainability. This could include, but is not limited to:
- Plastics
- Food production
- Energy
- Transport
- Cities
- Water use
- Tourism
Look at a specific issue within these broad topics and create a presentation that highlights the problems you encounter.
Your presentation should have:
- A location map or maps
- A brief introduction of the issue and its link to sustainability
- The causes of the issue (short and long-term)
- The consequences of the issue (short and long-term)
- Possible solutions to the issue and a move toward greater sustainability.
Watch the video below for a sense of what can be achieved and for some greater depth of understanding.
You can see from the map of each countries largest exports that fuel and energy are hugely important globally. Virtually all of what we take for granted in modern life requires energy, from heating and lighting, to transportation, to the manufacturing of the products that we use on a daily basis.
Oil is at the heart of this situation and the control of oil reserves and supplies has dominated international trade and relations for over 100 years.
Oil is at the heart of this situation and the control of oil reserves and supplies has dominated international trade and relations for over 100 years.
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1. How has the need for energy and oil impacted upon global politics, economics, the environment and society and culture over the past 100 years?
How does it continue to influence interactions today and into the future? Copy the question into your book as a title and create a table like the one below to add notes to from the information in the documentary. Use a full page of your book and leave 7 or 8 lines between the headings as space to add your notes. Political impacts Economic impacts Environmental impacts Social/Cultural impacts |
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To what extent is our globally increasing use of water sustainable?
Water shortages are likely to be the key environmental challenge of this century, scientists from Nasa have warned, as new data has revealed a drying-out of large parts of the globe between the tropics and the high latitudes, with 19 hotspots where water depletion has been dramatic.
Task
Investigate the sustainability of this situation using examples, theories and scientific studies to answer the question:
"To what extent is our globally increasing use of water sustainable?"
Task
Investigate the sustainability of this situation using examples, theories and scientific studies to answer the question:
"To what extent is our globally increasing use of water sustainable?"
Your focus will be upon analysis and strong use of OPVL of sources to create a well-supported study and strongly validated answer to the question.
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Criterion D: Thinking critically
i. analyse concepts, issues, models, visual representation and/or theories ii. summarize information to make valid, well-supported arguments iii. analyse a range of sources/data in terms of origin and purpose, recognizing values and limitations iv. recognize different perspectives and explain their implications. |
You will use large A1 paper to communicate your findings and arguments.
Use cut and paste to add materials to the A1 backing sheet. These can be booklets, folded maps and information and other interactive ways of presenting the data, analysis and and arguments.
Maps, data, images and clear written descriptions, analysis and arguments are a must.
Use PEE to maintain focus upon the question and remain analytical.
Use cut and paste to add materials to the A1 backing sheet. These can be booklets, folded maps and information and other interactive ways of presenting the data, analysis and and arguments.
Maps, data, images and clear written descriptions, analysis and arguments are a must.
Use PEE to maintain focus upon the question and remain analytical.
The Key concepts of consumption, equity and power should be considered within your analysis.
Consumption is the use of products and resources to satisfy immediate needs and wants. Products that we use to directly meet our needs and wants are called consumer goods (for example, a television meets the desire for entertainment). The production of virtually all consumer goods requires water, often called "virtual water" in this context. Alternatives to consumption include investment and conservation. In investment, products are produced and can then be used to make other goods and services, rather than being immediately consumed. In conservation, production is avoided in order to preserve resources. Both investment and conservation allow for the possibility of higher consumption in the future. The proper combination of consumption, investment and conservation is a question for debate.
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Equity involves concerns about fairness and justice. A major issue of equity is that of distribution of an economy’s products. Those who have more income and wealth are able to consume more products, and if differences in consumption are large enough, extremes of inequity or unfairness may result. What constitutes a fair or equitable distribution of consumption is a question for debate.
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Power of individuals and of groups can be defined as a capacity to make things happen. The balance of power is significant in terms of human development and interaction—the relative power of government, transnational corporations, multilevel government organisations, civil society organisations and the rights of individual communities and citizens. The concept of power raises the issue of equity and the rights of different groups, including gender groups, and the rights of indigenous peoples in the competition over resources. Competition in geography is the struggle among conflicting interests. Competition over resources (land, food, timber, water, oil and other energy sources) is central to the study of modern-day geography and it raises the question of the rights to resources and power over them.
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Arguments, information, images and examples must always refer back to the question, offering a judgement upon the extent of the problem or solution and expanding upon the complexity of the issues investigated.
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