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    • This course is structured in the following manner:

      • There is an overall "kit" in a PDF format that anyone can download and have access to ALL of the units in this course.
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    • Civic Education for Sustainability: KIT in English File

      This Kit provides the reader with resources, activities and different units and modules for a course on Civic Education for Sustainability.   The teacher can choose the units or modules that are most relevant for thier course and upgrade an existing course or create a complete course with the material that is in this Kit.

    • CIVIC EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY Reader in Georgian Language File

      This reader includes articles in Georgian on the topics of this course which are most relevant to Georgia.   

◄UNIT 4: ECONOMY--Topic 4: Transportation and CommunicationUNIT 5: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DIMENSION -- Topic 2: Government: Local and Global Regulation►

UNIT 5: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DIMENSION -- Topic 1: Local and Global Community

  • UNIT 5: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DIMENSION -- Topic 1: Local and Global Community

    RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: 

    Global environmental awareness is a comparatively recent phenomenon that which emerged with the development of mass air travel and the introduction of new technologies after the Second World War. At the same time our ideas about the Earth were radically transformed by the space programme that furnished images of the earth as a blue and white globe floating in the deep darkness of space. Modern electronic communications now link the world as never before and consequently the local and global are becoming increasingly intertwined.

    We are also aware to the extent that the modern world is fractured and divided with especially marked disparities between modern industrialised nations and the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, there are long-term regional conflicts in some areas which it can be argued are signs of environmental stress and political inequality. People have always moved around the world throughout human history but the current pressure of human numbers and the signs that economic growth means that migration and the movement of refugees is a highly contentious issue for the local and global communities.

    LEARNING OUTCOMES:

    Students should understand that although they cannot trace the impact of their actions, what they do and the things that they buy have an impact on other people and the environment around the world. 

    ACTIVITIES: 

    Activity 1:

    There are different ways in which people and the environment are connected at a global level.  Students will find issues which link local activities to global outcomes.  Examples might include:

    how air pollution created by industry and traffic in developed countries contributes to climate change around the world

    hunting endangered animals in one part of the world to use in other places can lead to their extinction disrupting ecological systems

    the impact of water pollution, irrigation and hydro-electric dams on the upper regions of a river such as the Nile affects people downstream

    how lack of water, food and environmental problems are sometimes the root cause of international migration

    the potential for solar energy invented in one part of the world to be adopted globally to reduce fossil fuel consumption

     how international action to ban the use of CFC gasses from factories and home use has succeeded in stopping the growth of the ozone hole which has begun to disappear 

    Activity 2: The class will discuss the problem of global migration In terms of local environmental problems and its global impact.


    BIBLIOGRAPHY:

    Compulsory Literature:

    Koser, K. (2007). International Migration: A very short introduction. Oxford: London.

     

    Collins (2012). World Watch. Collins: London

     

    The Global Risks Report 2017 12th Edition


    Plastic Pollution in seabirds: Midway Island




     

    Supporting Literature:

    http://www.hardrainproject.com/exhibition/whole-earth



◄UNIT 4: ECONOMY--Topic 4: Transportation and CommunicationUNIT 5: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DIMENSION -- Topic 2: Government: Local and Global Regulation►