Global Skills Projects - 9697 OxfordAQA

Sustainability Ideas, Concepts And Approaches

Overzicht

In 1987 a commission chaired by the former Prime Minister of Norway published a report containing one sentence that has shaped forty years of argument: development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It sounds uncontroversial until you notice how much is packed into it. Whose needs? Which future generations? And who decides when one has been compromised for the sake of the other?

This is the only topic in Global Skills Projects that is about ideas rather than about how to work, and it is the foundation for the whole group project: the first criterion asks you to recall and apply sustainability learning to the issue you have chosen. This lesson covers the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development, the economic, environmental and social dimensions with the specification's own examples, the role of national and global citizenship, and the background to the current debates and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. You will take one concrete case apart across all three dimensions, and find out why the interesting projects are the ones where the dimensions disagree.

Doelstellingen

  1. The concepts of sustainability and sustainable development.
  2. Economic sustainability e.g. stable economic growth, fair distribution of wealth, responsible resource use.
  3. Environmental sustainability e.g. conservation, carbon emissions, ecosystem management.
  4. Social sustainability e.g. equality, education, well-being.
  5. The role of national and global citizenship in effective sustainable development.
  6. The background to current debates about sustainability and the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Lesnotitie

A town on a shrinking lake has three ways of describing its problem. The fishing cooperative says the catch has halved in twelve years and the boats will not last another five. The regional water authority says irrigation upstream has cut the inflow and that the farms feed a city of two million. A biologist says the shallows where the fish spawn are the first thing to disappear when a lake falls, so the decline will accelerate rather than level off.

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Je zult een mix van vraagtypen tegenkomen, waaronder meerkeuzevragen, korte antwoordvragen en essayvragen. Elke vraag is zorgvuldig samengesteld om verschillende aspecten van je kennis en kritisch denkvermogen te beoordelen.

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  1. Which report gave sustainable development its standard definition? A. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2015 B. Our Common Future, the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development C. The Paris Agreement, 2015 D. The Millennium Development Goals, 2000 Answer: B
  2. Which of these is given in the specification as an example of economic sustainability? A. Ecosystem management B. Well-being C. Fair distribution of wealth D. Conservation Answer: C
  3. How many Sustainable Development Goals were adopted as part of the 2030 Agenda? A. 8 B. 12 C. 17 D. 169 Answer: C
  4. A fishery is harvested faster than the fish can reproduce. What does this show? A. That the resource is non-renewable B. That a renewable resource used above its replacement rate behaves like a non-renewable one C. That carrying capacity does not apply to fisheries D. That the fishery is economically sustainable Answer: B
  5. What was the main change from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals? A. The goals became legally binding B. The goals apply to every country rather than mainly to developing countries C. The environment was removed from the goals D. The number of goals was reduced Answer: B

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Aanbevolen Boeken

OxfordAQA International GCSE Global Skills Projects (9697)
OxfordAQA International GCSE Global Skills Projects (9697)
Ondertitel: Student Book
Uitgever: Oxford University Press
Jaar: 2026
ISBN: 978-1-382-07557-2
Beschrijving: The handbook written for this qualification, for first teaching from 2025 and first assessment in 2026. It walks through both components in the order you will meet them: choosing a topic, planning, researching, referencing, writing the report, presenting, and reflecting on what the process taught you.
Cite Them Right
Cite Them Right
Ondertitel: The Essential Referencing Guide, twelfth edition
Uitgever: Bloomsbury Academic
Jaar: 2022
ISBN: 978-1-350-93345-3
Beschrijving: The standard answer to the question every project throws up sooner or later: how do I reference this particular thing? Worked patterns for books, journal articles, government reports, web pages, interviews, images and social media posts. Three of the specification's own research statements are about referencing, plagiarism and building a bibliography, and this is the book that settles all three.
Our Common Future
Our Common Future
Ondertitel: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development
Uitgever: Oxford University Press
Jaar: 1987
ISBN: 978-0-19-282080-8
Beschrijving: The report that defined sustainable development as development meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own. Everything the group project asks you to argue about, including the balance between economic, environmental and social sustainability, traces back to this document, and reading the original is far more useful than reading summaries of it.

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