Oes unit 3 Outcome 2: Contemporary Relationships with Natural Environments

For the purposes of this outcome the following definitions apply:

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  Contemporary: within the last 10 to 15 years
  
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  Outdoor environment: those environments that have minimal influence from humans, but may also include those that have been subject to human intervention
  
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  Relationships with outdoor environments: the interconnection between the perception of, interactions with, and the impacts on outdoor environments
  

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  Contemporary societal relationships with outdoor environments reflected in different forms of conservation, recreation, primary industries, and tourism practices
  

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  Compare and contrast different contemporary societal relationships with outdoor environments
  
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  Analyse and evaluate factors influencing contemporary societal relationships with outdoor environments
  

1. 
   Describe the activity – what is it? Use at least three specific and varied examples to show this.
   
2. 
   Why is this activity carried out? Give reasons.
   
3. 
   Who carries out this activity and why do they do it?
   
4. 
   Give examples of how the activity is done.
   
5. 
   Briefly describe the changes that have taken place throughout the non-Indigenous history of Australia. Give your reasons for these changes (think “relationships” – see definition)
   
6. 
   List the factors that have influenced people’s relationships with outdoor environments – particularly over the last 15 years.
   

The following sources may be used as a starting point. The text is also a source if information.

Australian Alps National Parks
www.australianalps.environment.gov.au/index.html

Education Kit

Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre

About Biosecurity

Australian Broadcast Corporation

Australia’s Centenary of Federation: Birth of the Nation, Growth of the Commonwealth

A Wide Open Land – ABC Background Briefing Report

Great Ocean Road Turns 75

Selling the Farm – an online multimedia resource examines food security in Australia

The Extraordinary Tale of William Buckley

Australian Conservation Foundation

History
www.acfonline.org.au/default.asp?section_id=175

Biosecurity Australia
www.daff.gov.au/ba/about

Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victorian Government)

Climate Change

The Gould League

About the Gould League

Greenpeace (Australia Pacific)

History
www.greenpeace.org/australia/about/history

Greenpeace (International)
www.greenpeace.org/international/

Oakland Institute

The Great Land Grab: Rush for world’s farmland threatens food security for the poor

(Mis)Investment in Agriculture: The role of the international finance corporation in the global land grabs

National Archives of Australia – Documenting a Democracy

Power for the people

National Film and Sound Archive – Snowy mountains scheme (video)

National Library of Australia – Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric scheme slide collection

Powerhouse Museum – Snowy: Power of a nation

Snowy Mountains Scheme

State Library of Victoria – Explore History

The Wilderness Society

Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Inc – Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Groups

Victorian National Parks Association