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Elaboration ACHGK075

explaining how communities and governments attempt to balance environmental, economic and social criteria in decisions on environmental programs, and the extent to which there can be trade-offs between them

Elaboration ACHGS079

constructing a logical argument, supported by evidence (for example, accounting for observed patterns in wellbeing at the local, national and global scales), and responding to questions

Elaboration ACHGS072

developing questions of geographical significance about an area of focus in the geographical knowledge and understanding strand (for example, questions related to the causes of environmental change or the extent of variation in global wellbeing)

Elaboration (3) ACHGK076

identifying trends in human wellbeing in countries over time

Elaboration (1) ACHGK078

identifying the trends in gross domestic product (GDP) and GDP per capita over time in the selected country or region and their relationship with trends in measures of wellbeing

Elaboration ACHGS073

gathering relevant data from a range of primary sources (for example, from observation and annotated field sketches, conducting surveys, interviews and experiments, or taking photographs) about human-induced environmental changes

Elaboration (1) ACHGS073

collecting geographical information from secondary sources (for example, topographic maps, thematic maps, choropleth maps, weather maps, climate graphs, compound column graphs and population pyramids, scatter plots, tables, satellite images and aerial …

Elaboration (1) ACHGS072

planning an investigation of the processes responsible for the geographical phenomenon being studied, at a range of scales (for example, the reasons for and types of variation in human wellbeing in one country)

Elaboration (2) ACHGS072

planning methods of data collection to answer inquiry questions and evaluating questions for their geographical significance

Elaboration ACHGS074

developing a table to show the responses to environmental change in a particular environment

Elaboration (1) ACHGK070

identifying human-induced environmental changes (for example, water and atmospheric pollution; loss of biodiversity; degradation of land, inland and coastal aquatic environments) and discussing the challenges they pose for sustainability

Elaboration ACHGK071

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

Elaboration (1) ACHGK072

explaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander models of sustainability that contribute to broader conservation practices

Elaboration (1) ACHGK073

examining the interconnections between biophysical processes and human actions that generate environmental change, together with the consequences of these changes

Elaboration (3) ACHGK074

exploring the variety of solutions to similar environmental changes in different places

Elaboration ACHGK079

examining spatial data on human wellbeing in India to identify the regions of India with high and low levels of wellbeing, discussing identified patterns and explaining the differences

Elaboration (3) ACHGS073

using Gapminder or United Nations statistics to collect data on countries to answer an inquiry question

Elaboration (1) ACHGS075

creating a map to show measures of environmental change, using a spatial technologies application

Elaboration ACHGS076

analysing environmental change (for example, the clearance of vegetation or a plan for a vegetation corridor) using topographic maps and satellite images

Elaboration (1) ACHGS076

constructing computer-generated tables, graphs, maps and diagrams to analyse data on human wellbeing

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