The Sustainability priority is intended to support students’ understanding of theinterconnectedness of Earth’s systems, and the important role that EES can play in informingdecisions for a more sustainable future:Australian Journal of Environmental EducationTomas, Mills & Rigano, in-press 6… students appreciate that Earth and environmental science provides the basis for decisionmaking in many areas of society and that these decisions can impact the Earth system, itsenvironments and its resources. They understand the importance of using science to predictpossible effects of human and other activity, and to develop management plans or alternativetechnologies that minimise these effects and provide for a more sustainable future. (ACARA,n.d.a, p. 24)