HASS12 Geography ATAR: Global environmental change

Sustainability in the 21st century

Explore some of the challenges and successes of sustainability, starting in one of the world's most diverse habitats - the rainforest.

Source: ClickView, Environmental science for students, 2008, Duration 24:26, URL: https://online.clickview.com.au/libraries/videos/25396371/sustainability-in-the-21st-century

Global climate change

Dive into an in-depth exploration of global climate change, and see how both natural events and human activity, particularly since the Industrial Revolution, have played a role in changing our climate.

Source: ClickView, Environmental science for students, 2008, Duration 25:25, URL: https://online.clickview.com.au/libraries/series/3717768/environmental-science-for-students/videos/25396457/global-climate-change

Human impacts on the environment: Crash Course ecology #10

Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale (2013, Wikipedia).

Source: YouTube, Crash Course, 2013, Duration 10:37, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eTCZ9L834s

SPICESS - Geoskills

Using the acronym 'SPICESS' this video takes you through the concepts and how they relate to each other. The concepts are: Space, Place, Interconnections, Change, Environment, Sustainability and Scale.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uetK1CCNwF4

Map source: https://ecotope.org/anthromes/images/anthrome_map_v1.png