Course topics.

Try this with Geography

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Measuring and mapping biodiversity at local, national and global scales
• Energy flows and nutrient cycling in ecosystems
• Habitat loss and fragmentation as the primary driver of biodiversity decline
• Invasive species and overexploitation: mechanisms and global case studies
• Protected area networks: design principles and effectiveness
• Tropical rainforests: structure, functioning and management responses
• Defining and applying sustainability: pillars, indicators and contested meanings
• The science and geography of climate change: causes, evidence and projected impacts
• Mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change
• Stakeholders in global sustainability: roles, conflicts and international governance
• Classifying and characterising rural and urban places using geographical indicators
• Rural decline: causes and consequences in Australian and global contexts
• Urbanisation trends: global patterns, drivers and demographic transition
• Urban morphology, land use patterns and the internal structure of cities
• Megacity case study: growth, challenges and management responses
• Informal settlements in megacities: causes, characteristics and upgrading strategies
• An Australian country town: character, challenges and planning responses
• Measuring liveability: indices, indicators and their limitations
• Urban sustainability strategies: transport, green infrastructure and smart cities
• Climate change as a multiplier of threats to biodiversity and ecosystem function