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Global Networks and Environmental Change

11 dot points across 11 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How are economic and cultural systems being transformed by global integration?

Globalisation transforms economies through shifting production and trade, and cultures through diffusion, hybridisation and homogenisation, with uneven spatial outcomes.

How global integration transforms economic geography and culture, including production shifts, trade, cultural diffusion and homogenisation, with Tasmanian and global examples.

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What causes environmental change and how is sustainability assessed?

Human activity drives environmental change at multiple scales, and sustainability frameworks help assess whether systems can persist over time.

Natural and human causes of environmental change, key impacts, and how sustainability is defined and measured, using Tasmanian and global cases.

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What are the key geographical concepts and how do they shape geographic thinking?

The seven key concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale and change frame how geographers investigate the world.

The seven key geographical concepts (place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale, change) and how to apply them to think geographically, with Tasmanian examples.

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What are the geopolitical consequences of international integration?

International integration produces geopolitical consequences including shifting power, governance challenges, conflict, and uneven sovereignty and security outcomes.

The geopolitical and social consequences of international integration, including shifting power, governance, conflict and sovereignty, with Australian and global examples.

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How do global flows of people, goods, capital and information connect places?

Global networks link places through flows of people, trade, capital, information and ideas, creating interdependence and uneven outcomes.

How flows of people, trade, capital and information bind places into interdependent global networks, with Tasmanian and global examples.

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How is hazard risk determined, and why are some people more vulnerable?

Hazard risk combines the probability of an event with exposure and vulnerability, so impacts fall unevenly on people and places.

How hazard risk is determined by probability, exposure and vulnerability, why impacts are uneven, and how risk is perceived, with Tasmanian and global examples.

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What processes transform the Earth's land cover and where do they occur?

Natural and human processes such as deforestation, agriculture, urban expansion and mining transform land cover at local to global scales.

The natural and anthropogenic processes driving land cover transformation, including deforestation, agriculture, urban expansion and mining, with Tasmanian and global examples.

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How does land cover change affect global climate and biodiversity?

Land cover change alters climate through albedo and the carbon cycle, and reduces biodiversity, with feedbacks that drive further change.

How land cover transformation affects global climate through albedo and carbon, and reduces biodiversity, including feedbacks and anthropogenic biomes, with Tasmanian and global examples.

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How can environmental change be managed across scales?

Environmental change is managed through mitigation, adaptation and governance at local, national and global scales, with varied effectiveness.

Strategies for managing environmental change - mitigation, adaptation and governance from local to global - evaluated with Tasmanian and global examples.

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How is hazard risk managed through prevention, mitigation, preparedness and response?

Hazard risk is managed across the disaster cycle through prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery at multiple scales.

Hazard risk management through prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery, evaluated across scales with Tasmanian and global examples.

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What are natural and ecological hazards and how are they distributed?

Natural and ecological hazards are potential sources of harm whose distribution, magnitude and frequency vary spatially and over time.

The nature, types, causes and spatial distribution of natural and ecological hazards, including magnitude, frequency and scale, with Tasmanian and global examples.

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