10 Geography - One semester

• How can the spatial variation between places and changes in environments be explained?

• What management options exist for sustaining human and natural systems into the future?

• How do world views influence decisions on how to manage environmental and social change?

Topic 1: Development

• Measuring and mapping human wellbeing and development.

• Reasons for spatial variations between countries in selected indicators of human wellbeing. 

• Issues affecting development of places and their impact on human wellbeing, drawing on a case studies from South East Asia.

 Topic 2: Disparities

• Reasons for, and consequences of, spatial variations in human wellbeing in South Australia at the local scale 

• Investigate programs designed to reduce differences in wellbeing in SE Asia or South Australia

Topic 3: Food (in)security

• Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to enough safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy lifestyle.

• The primary environmental and human causes of food insecurity in LEDC’s and MEDC’s

• The socio economic impacts of food insecurity

Topic 4: River Ecosystems

• A comparative study of two inland water ecosystems in Australia (The Murray Darling Basin) and Asia (The Mekong Basin).

• Investigate the impact of dam construction on natural and human systems on the Mekong River.