Environmental change and management

The human-induced environmental changes that challenge sustainability (e.g. water and atmospheric pollution, degradation of land, inland and coastal aquatic environments) (ACHGK070)

The environmental worldviews of people and their implications for environmental management (ACHGK071)

Select one of the following types of environments as the context for a comparative study of an environmental change for Australia and one other country:

• land 
• inland water 
• coast 
• marine 
• urban 

The causes and likely consequences of environmental change being investigated (ACHGK073)

The strategies to manage the environmental change being investigated (ACHGK074)

The application of environmental, economic and social criteria in evaluating management responses to the change being investigated (ACHGK075)

Geographies of human wellbeing

The different ways of measuring and mapping human wellbeing and development, and how these can be applied to measure differences between places (ACHGK076)

The reasons for spatial variations between countries in selected indicators of human wellbeing (ACHGK077)

The issues affecting the development of places and their impact on human wellbeing, drawing on a study from a developing country or region in Africa, South America or the Pacific Islands (ACHGK078)

The role of international and national government and non-government organisations' initiatives in improving human wellbeing in Australia and other countries (ACHGK081)