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Geography · Grade 12

A Geographic Decision-Making Capstone

In this capstone, learners advise the fictional, fast-growing city of Ardena in a drying basin on how to secure its water supply to 2040. They analyse the decision context with demand projections and a stakeholder map, compare a new dam, a desalination plant and a demand-management package using weighted multi-criteria analysis and sensitivity tests, weigh environmental, social and climate impacts with lessons from real cities, and write a conditional, evidence-based recommendation with monitoring indicators.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 140 minutes
  • Decision-making capstone check: 11 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, pin a map, pick map regions, match pairs and type a number
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What learners will discover

  • Analyse a decision context using projections of demand and supply and a stakeholder analysis.
  • Apply weighted multi-criteria analysis to compare options and test how sensitive the ranking is to the weights.
  • Evaluate options' environmental, social, economic and climate impacts across groups, places and time, using evidence from comparable places.
  • Make and communicate a justified, conditional recommendation with monitoring indicators and responses to counterarguments.

Lessons

  1. The decision context 6 steps4 practiceabout 35 min
  2. Weighted multi-criteria analysis 6 steps4 practiceabout 35 min
  3. Impacts and lessons from elsewhere 7 steps5 practiceabout 35 min
  4. Recommend and communicate 6 steps3 practiceabout 35 min
  5. Decision-making capstone check 11 questions at the end

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