Sustainable Development and Modern China

Comprehensive Unit283 pagesGrade Level: High SchoolIncludes curriculum unit + CD-ROM In just a few decades since modern societies first began to recognize and debate their impacts on the natural environment, sustainable development has evolved into a deep and complex topic, attracting focused attention from scholars, governments, and individuals. Through a series of individual, small group and class presentation activities, as well as PowerPoint presentations, graphs, charts, and maps, the curriculum unit Sustainability and Modern China explores these issues through the lens of China. Many environmental trends in China are unprecedented and often mind-boggling in terms of scale, rate of change, and potential for both positive and negative global impact. In order to make it easier to comprehend environmental sustainability in China and in the world, the overall unit has been framed with the following overarching threads: It is important for students to have a base understanding of pre