Relationships between Nature and Human Use
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Description
Objective: This worksheet aims to educate students about the diverse ways humans interact with and utilize natural environments across different regions, with a particular focus on the concept of sustainable versus non-sustainable use and its consequences.
Content and methods: The worksheet begins by asking students to match various human uses (agriculture, tourism, fishing, etc.) to four major geographical regions: Savanna, Desert, Tropical Rainforest, and Polar Region. It then presents detailed information on specific examples of human interaction with nature in a specific region. These texts highlight the environmental, economic, and social impacts of each activity, contrasting unsustainable practices with sustainable ones. Students are tasked with identifying the disadvantages of non-sustainable use and suggesting improvements in a table. Finally, the worksheet prompts students to reflect on the necessity of sustainable use and the long-term dangers of not implementing it. An "Additional information for teachers" section provides a pre-filled table with detailed disadvantages and suggestions for improvement for each case study.
Competencies:
- Geographical knowledge and classification
- Understanding of human-environment interactions
- Analysis of sustainability concepts
- Problem-solving and proposing solutions for environmental challenges
- Critical thinking about long-term consequences of human actions
Target group: Secondary school students
SDGs:
- 14th goal (“Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”): The worksheet addresses the risks of overexploitation of fish stocks in Greenland due to commercial trawling and highlights how such non-sustainable fishing practices threaten the marine ecosystem and the livelihoods of indigenous communities.
- 15th goal (“Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss”): The material contrasts the ecological destruction and habitat loss caused by oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with the sustainable ecotourism model in Svalbard, which uses strict regulations to ensure that human activities do not disturb fragile habitats or local wildlife like polar bears.
