Course topics.

Try this with Outdoor and Environmental Studies

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

• Biological isolation, geological stability and climatic variation in Australia before humans
• Custodianship, Country and how specific Indigenous peoples' relationships changed after European colonisation
• Non-Indigenous relationships with outdoor environments, 1788-1859 and 1860-1900
• Non-Indigenous relationships with outdoor environments, 1901-1990
• Lake Pedder, the Franklin River and the Little Desert: campaigns that reshaped political party policy
• Land and water councils, Registered Aboriginal Parties and contemporary custodianship
• Comparing conservation, recreation and economic relationships with outdoor environments
• Methods individuals and groups use to influence decisions in conflicts over outdoor environments
• How land managers resolve conflicts over the use of outdoor environments
• Federal environmental policy and the influence of climate change, renewable energy and water management debates
• The pillars of sustainability, their interdependence and critiques of the concept
• Using water, air and soil quality to assess the health of an outdoor environment
• Species and ecosystem biodiversity as observable indicators of environmental health
• Land degradation, introduced species, urbanisation, climate change, flood and fire: impacts on society and environments
• Why healthy outdoor environments matter for wellbeing, and local to international climate mitigation strategies
• Indigenous and non-Indigenous land management strategies for sustaining outdoor environments
• FFG Amendment Act 2019, Ramsar, EPBC Act 1999, VEAC Act 2001 and the Planning and Environment Act 1987
• Regenerative farming, Trust for Nature, Landcare and 'Friends of' groups
• Activism, advocacy, ethical and sustainable consumerism and green home design
• Planning, collecting logbook data and reporting on two visited outdoor environments