2021 GAWA CONFERENCE: Engaging with Western Australian Geography Curriculum

Keynote speaker Hon Alannah MacTiernan MLC

Opportunities presented by decarbonising our economy 

with special reference to Agriculture and Hydrogen

Direct link to Yr 12 Geography Unit 4 Planning sustainable places

Keynote speaker Dr Natasha Pauli – Senior lecturer University of WA                                   

How human activities exacerbate ecological hazards: 

linking pandemics with environmental change

The enormous social and economic toll of COVID-19 has brought vector-borne diseases to the forefront of political agendas around the world. However, long before ‘coronavirus’ entered popular lexicon, researchers have been warning of how land use cover change, coupled with climate change and rapid urbanisation, are exacerbating the risk of disease outbreaks and pandemics. This keynote presents an overview of current research linking human activities and emerging infectious diseases, including case studies from around the world. The keynote also highlights the ways in which we can learn from the experience of COVID-19 to turn society toward more socially, economically and environmentally sustainable ways of production, consumption and landscape management.

Direct link to Yr 11 Unit 1 Natural and ecological hazards and Links to Yr 12 Geography Unit 3 Global environmental change

and much more .................................                  

(see the program for all presenters/workshops/fieldtrips/incursions)