HSC Geography · NSW Stage 6 (2022)

# Human–Environment Interactions

Your home page for the whole focus area — land cover change, climate change and bushfires. Start with the study guide, then work through each chapter.

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📚 Start here → the Master Study Guide
Every case study, the concept matrix, essay scaffolds, a self-test and the full glossary — in one place.
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Part 12 · Land Cover Change

### 12.1 Natural & Human-Induced Change

Drivers & evidence of change
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### 12.2 Land Cover Change at a Global Scale

Deforestation, desertification, ice
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Part 13 · Climate Change

### 13.1 Characteristics

Spatial & temporal patterns
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### 13.2 Causes

Natural vs human causes
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### 13.3 Impacts

Environmental & human impacts
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### 13.4 Challenges, Opportunities & Responses

Mitigation, adaptation, Costa Rica
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Part 14 · Contemporary Hazard: Bushfires

### 14.1 Bushfires

The hazard & its behaviour
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### 14.2 Mitigation Strategies

Reducing the risk
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### 14.3 The Black Summer Fires (2019–20)

The capstone case study
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