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DOT POINT 4
  • Advantages and disadvantages of selected future
    scenarios, concerning, for example, environmental
    and social sustainability
  • Evaluate arguments and scenarios related to
    future social life in Australia
  • GLOSSARY
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Social sustainability

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Quantitative data
  • This type of data results in numerical
    information on the quantity or amount of what
    is being studied.
  • For example, how much of something or how
    frequently something occurs
  • Quantitative data is often used by the Australian
    Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to identify social
    trends by determining how many people feel a
    certain way about a particular issue.

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Qualitative data
  • Main type of qualitative data collection
    includes
  • interactive interviewing (people asked to
    verbally describe their experiences of
    phenomenon)
  • written descriptions by participants (people
    asked to write descriptions of their experiences
    of phenomenon)
  • observation (descriptive observations of verbal
    and non-verbal behaviour)
  • Qualitative data is often used to gauge public
    concern for the environment.

4
Sustainability
  • Sustainability has always been linked to a core
    concept of human need so it is a fundamental
    contradiction to believe it can be achieved
    without improved social equity and social
    progress (Adebowale 2001, p. 5)

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Social sustainability
  • A socially sustainable society is one that is
    just, equitable, inclusive and democratic, and
    provides a decent quality of life for current and
    future generations.
  • Development that meets the needs of the present
    without compromising the ability of future
    generations to meet their own needs (eg,
    combination of social, economic and environmental
    considerations).
  • Includes protection of human rights, labour
    rights and corporate governance.

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Social sustainability
  • Read the article Earth, wind and fire.
  • Consider what Australia will be like for your
    grandchildren. Briefly describe what your
    grandchildren would look like, wear, think, do,
    etc then focus on social factors that they
    experience because of our actions today.
  • Read the Australian Social Trends article
    Expanding links with China and India then
    answer the following questions.
  • Why has Australia increased involvement with the
    Asian region, particularly China and India?
  • Look at the graphs on page 1 and analyse the
    trends by explaining how they could impact on
    Australia.
  • Look at the first graph on page 2 and describe
    the trends shown.
  • Look at the bottom graph on page 3 and explain
    what impact increasing numbers of international
    students could have on Australian education.
  • Look at the graphs on page 5 and describe the
    difference between imports and exports between
    China and India.

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Social sustainability
  • Benefits
  • Improved standard of living for future
    generations
  • Increased awareness of superannuation may avoid
    retirees relying on government welfare (e.g.
    pension)
  • Institutional access for all (e.g. schools,
    hospitals, transport)
  • Increase of multi-story apartments in the city
    reduces urban sprawl
  • Individual financial security through more
    affordable housing
  • Multicultural policies to reduce racism
  • Greater access to mental health services
  • Limitations
  • Natural sunlight/views limited within CBD radius
    due to multi-story apartments
  • Children have limited safe play-time in
    multi-story apartments
  • Short-term increase in costs to develop new
    energy forms
  • Four year federal government cycle limits
    long-term vision
  • Self-management approach

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Environmental sustainability
  • Economic and social development that avoided
    pollution, conserved non-renewable energy forms,
    such as oil, and in general did not create future
    problems for which there were no easily available
    solutions.
  • Aka sustainable development.

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Environmental sustainability
  • Choose one of the following activities to
    complete
  • Read the An introduction to climate change
    handout and Save us from boatpeople, say Tiwi
    Islanders.
  • Describe how globalisation has impacted on their
    environmental sustainability.
  • Read the article Preserving old-growth forests
    is vital to saving the plant.
  • Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
    logging old-growth forests for woodchips in
    Australia.

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Environmental sustainability
  • Benefits
  • Future generations have a planet to live on
  • Increased health (cleaner air, oxygen, water,
    etc)
  • Tourism maintained (e.g. Great Barrier Reef,
    penguin parade, etc)
  • Reduced likelihood species being threatened or
    becoming extinct
  • New cleaner industries introduced (e.g. wind
    power, solar power, water tanks, etc)
  • Individual choice to purchase green
    energy/products driving corporate change
  • Limitations
  • Not economically competitive on a global scale
  • Australian job losses as corporations move work
    offshore where environmental restrictions dont
    apply
  • Possible power outages for Australians because of
    brown coal plant closures
  • Excessive cost of solar panels and water tanks
    limits uptake
  • Green solutions can be just as destructive (e.g.
    green bags)
  • Lower-income earners may be unable to afford
    green alternatives (e.g. hybrid cars)

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Future scenarios
  • Predict some utopian and dystopian scenarios for
    Australia.
  • Utopia an imagined idealised state in which
    everything is perfect
  • Dystopia an imagined state in which everything
    is unpleasant or bad such as the environment of
    governance
  • You may want to refer to the political cartoons
    and As the globe warms up, a way of life is
    washed away article for ideas.
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