Unit 3 outcome 2

Revision
Interactions and factors

 societal relationships with outdoor environments reflected in different forms

of conservation, recreation, primary industries, and tourism practice
  
 • the factors influencing societal relationships with outdoor environments,
including:
 – the effects of different technologies
 – commercialisation of outdoor environments and outdoor experiences
 – depictions of outdoor environments and outdoor experiences in the media,
music, art, writing and advertising
 – social responses to risk taking
Influences on technology

 Evaluate pros and cons: technology both seperates and brings us closer to
environments
 Performance is improved – equipment easier to use, lightweight,
 More remote places accessed by transportation, introducing human impacts
remotely
 Warmer clothing (wetsuits) experience the outdoors for longer in comfort
increasing feelings of connectedness with nature
 Can be more dangerous as people rely on newly bought technology to do the
activity rather than education and knowledge.
Every question that asks about
relationships
 Perceptions
 Interactions
 Impacts
 The use of safer, lightweight, foam boards for beginner surfers has made surf
riding easier to achieve and more enjoyable. These changes in technology
have led to more people and different groups of people getting involved in
surfing. More involvement in surfing has changed Australian relationships to
the coasts from seeing it as a danger and an adversary, to seeing it as a
gymnasium and a place to have fun. This greater involvement has also seen
people come to respect the environment and want to work to preserve it.’
Media portrayals

 Media, music art and advertising

 An adversary, a resource, a museum, a cathedral

 Look at examples on 215

 Find an example and analyse how it influences relationships
 Man vs wild, survivor, Jeep,

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBgNGotlNCg
Positive influences on relationship Negative influences on relationship
TV shows and Magazines Encouraged participation increases impacts through greater numbers of
• a greater awareness of places, weather patterns and new safety visitors. Habitat is cleared for car parks and infrastructure.
technologies from seeing these on tv and in magazines  
Increased knowledge of an area: People have become more cautious and Advertising
responsible when venturing into the outdoors Some advertising promotes the outdoors as a commodity to be bought
• a more intimate response to places exposed in the media, a greater and sold so humans can make money.
desire to visit a place to appreciate its beauty and experience nature or (Timber industry advertising or coal advertising)
experience it as a gymnasium
Humans may be perceived as dominating over the environment and
Music with lyrics about a threatened environment communicates the
having power over the environment
environment is a limited resource, promotes conservation minded
 
decisions, and encourages sustainable practices
Art can depict a beautiful sunset, beach or forest and the environment is
viewed as a place to be mentally refreshed. It fosters an appreciation of
the environment.
Example answer

 Some advertising promotes the outdoors as a commodity to be bought and

sold so humans can make money. Advertising clean coal gives the perception
that coal electricity is not harming the environment because technology can
make it cleaner. Those believing this will continue to rely on coal and not
promote switching to renewable energy, further creating carbon emissions
and global warning. Humans may be perceived as dominating over the
environment and having power over the environment. Significant impacts
such as land degradation and erosion are associated with alterations to the
environment when using it as a limitless resource for logging. Logging
companies perceive and advertise they are using resources sustainably and
caring for forests. Plantation forestry is one attempt to save native forests.
Conservationists perceive the environment as a limited resource and promote
actions such as not using paper to save trees.
Social responses to risk taking
Chain of events
 Media coverage
 Public response
 Investigation inquest
 Legal proceedings
 Regulations

 Examples – Shark attack in WA, caving incident, Anaconda store

 Influence on relationships p222
Positive influences on relationship
• development of strict rules and regulations
(compulsory helmets)
• certification requirements (training and education
for leaders)
Increase in education (water safey adds, let someone
know before you go)
• new safety procedures and/or equipment
• increases and restrictions in insurance
• infrastructure development -attempts to make the
activity safer (railing)
• development of new technologies (distress beacons)
Development of codes of conduct – minimum impact
guidelines
Negative influences on relationship
Media reports of misadventure dramatized, to raise
public awareness of outdoor dangers. outdoors
promoted as hostile and unsafe, possibly decreasing
participation
• criticism of risk takers
Extreme adventurers may take more risks due to the
apparent availability of rescue parties
Media and public outrage
• legal responses and sanctions
(banning activities – base jumping)
• restriction of access to specific venues (closing
beaches)
• modify the outdoor environment to reduce
risks (safety rails and platforms may be a false
sense of security)
What is missing?

 Society’s response to risk-taking may have a negative effect on relationships

if an incident occurs and someone sustains an injury or dies. Society may
respond to an activity such as rock climbing by viewing it as a danger and
something that is too risky. This would cause decreased participation and a
lack of understanding of the environment due to fear. They may consider it a
waste of taxpayers’ money and resources to respond to emergencies and
therefore lead them to believe that participation in rock climbing should be
restricted in some way.
Social and political debates – how they
influence relationships
 Climate change – caused by humans or not

How does it influence relationships? P 228

VEAC role and function

 Investigate environmental uses at the request of the minister for environment

 Does not make decisions just reccomendations
 Involved in the cattle grazing in the high country, Marine national parks
Political parties

 Kyoto protocol International agreement created under the UNFCC in Japan

1996
 Aimed to reduce carbon emmissions among developed countries
 Aus signed in 2008 under the Rudd government
 Part of this was the Emmissions trading scheme this was part of the reason
Rudd lost government to Gillard
 Rudd regained power before the election but lost to Liberal 2014 Abbot
abolished the scheme
Social and political debates

 Climate change:
 *a long
term change in the earth's climate, especially a change due toan increase in the average 
atmospheric temperature
 *is the warmer and erratic climate caused by global warming, changed rainfall, increased
drought and storms, more unpredictable weather, rising sea levels to due ice melt
  
 The climate change debate:
 Climate change is a hoax, weather patterns involve natural changes
 Vs
 The scientific data is evidence that human carbon emissions have contributed to
climate change and needs immediate action