Islands, Regions and Sustainability - Session Plan Questions on unit or unit guide Sustainable communities Islands Regions Sustainability Project themes

Sustainable Communities Sustainability Empowerment and responsibility Social well-being Ecological integrity Economic security Communities of place and communities of interest Natural, human, social, physical, financial and organisational assets

Islands Defining islands - vulnerability Tasmania – –smallest, least populated, only island state –dependence on resource extractive activities … tourism –peripherality and identity –internal fracturing –commitment to sustainable development

Regions The region is geographer’s equivalent of the historian’s epoch. It is a device of areal generalization [and areal differentiation], an attempt to separate the otherwise overwhelming diversity and complexity of the earth’s surface into recognizable component parts (Fellman, Getis & Getis, 1999, 16). Objective view – regions as natural Subjective view – regions as social constructions Tasmanian regions

ABS Statistical Regions

Natural regions?

Sustainability Integration Community involvement Precaution Equity Continual improvement Ecological integrity