Sustainability
What is sustainability and what does it mean? Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for
our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our
natural environment. Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions
under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit
fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future
generations.
“In the Australian Curriculum: Science the priority of
sustainability provides authentic contexts for exploring, investigating and
understanding chemical, biological, physical and Earth and space systems. The
Australian Curriculum: Science explores a wide range of systems that operate at
different time and spatial scales. By investigating the relationships between
systems and system components and how systems respond to change, students
develop an appreciation for the interconnectedness of Earth’s biosphere,
geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. Relationships including cycles and cause
and effect are explored, and students develop observation and analysis skills
to examine these relationships in the world around them” (Acara, n.d).
“In this learning area, students appreciate that science
provides the basis for decision making in many areas of society and that these
decisions can impact on the Earth system. They understand the importance of
using science to predict possible effects of human and other activity and to
develop management plans or alternative technologies that minimise these
effects” (Acara, n.d).
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