Unit 6: Land and Water Use
Essential Question:
- How do the tragedy of commons apply to land use practices?
- What are the benefits and disadvantages of using public land for multiple uses?
- What is urban sprawl and why is it considered a problem?
- How do we make complex decisions about land use?
- Explain how people have attempted to harmonize economic development with sustainable development.
- Describe the concept of the tragedy of commons and maximum sustainable yield, and explain how they pertain to land use.
- Describe the function, operation, and efficacy of the four major public land management agencies in the United States
- Understand the causes and consequences of urban sprawl
- Explain the different approaches and policies that promote sustainable land use.
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Tragedy of the Commons Lab
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Essential Question:
- How do we make complex decisions about land use?
- What are the challenges of overcoming hunger and malnutrition?
- Explain the different approaches and policies that promote sustainable land use.
- Describe the human nutritional needs and the challenges of overcoming hunger and malnutrition.
- Identify the costs and benefits of GMOs, industrialized agriculture.
- Explain alternatives to industrial farming.
- Describe the major aquatic biomes
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