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Community Change is the definition of community development that includes issues relating to public policy, democratization, collective action, physical and social infrastructure developments.
In India,there is a lot more influence from the west nowadays. This causes cultural changes such as foods,clothes,hairstyles etc.
Globalisation has helped in the development of India. Big companies such as McDonald's, Microsoft etc has made India more globally connected.
With an increasing number of social media users , people are now more connected than ever before.

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Humans now-a-days are progressing in science and technology to make their life better, but unfortunately it affects the environment and so the animals life too. There are different ways the humans affect animals life. One way is pollution, that caused many of the animals to die or extinct. The second way is destroying their habitats by different ways such as; deforestation, digging underground for oil and fossils.

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- Sustainability can be defined as "to meet the needs of the current generation to fulfill their goals without compromising the ability of future generations to fulfil their own goals" (United Nations 1987)
- sustainability movements like

-practice minimalism
-reduce, reuse, repurpose, recycle
-limit electricity and water usage
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In India, the most common religions are Hinduism, Islam and Christianity

Belief systems can differ from political beliefs, philosophical beliefs, religious beliefs, traditions, etc.

Belief system is concerned with the different perspectives on life

Belief systems can put a backbone for a lifestyle but it can also lead people into doing actions for the purpose of their religion instead of their conscience.

Belief systems are sets  of beliefs that people have about what is right and wrong, and what is true and false.

Throughout India's history, religion has been an important part of the country's culture.

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Communities grow and change over time. New people move in and other people move out. New buildings are built and new roads are paved. Your community has a history. History is the events that happened in the past. Your community also has a future.

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Trade and aid can contribute towards the latter objective by addressing supply-side capacity and trade-related constraints that exist.
Aid for trade bolsters the contribution of trade to economic growth and poverty reduction.
Countries trade with each other when, on their own, they do not have the resources, or capacity to satisfy their own needs and wants.
Trade is said to be better than aid. If industrialized countries do more to open their markets, developing countries can increase their exports by many billions of dollars per year — far more than they now receive in aid. Trade-related activities – such as trade facilitation and infrastructure – are most effective in promoting exports, effective in low income countries. While aid flows to the business sectors, they are more effective in higher income developing countries.

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Biodiversity:

1. the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.Biodiversity, or biological diversity, is a term that refers to the number of genes, species, individual organisms within a given species, and biological communities within a defined geographic area, ranging from the smallest ecosystem to the global biosphere.

Ecosystem:

1. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

Biodiversity encompasses all biological entities occurring as an interacting system in a habitat or ecosystem and plants constitute a very important segment of such biological systems. Biodiversity of plants collectively known as “plant genetic resources” is a key component of any agricultural production system, indeed, of any ecosystem, without which natural evolutionary adjustment of the system to the changing environmental and biotic conditions would be impossible. Plant biodiversity is an irreplaceable resource, providing raw materials for introduction, domestication as well as improvement programmes in agriculture and forestry. Conservation and use of genetic diversity for sustainable ecosystem or agro-ecosystem should be continuous to meet food, clothing, shelter and health requirements of India's growing population.

Why is biodiversity important?

Biodiversity boosts ecosystem productivity where each species, no matter how small, all have an important role to play. For example, A larger number of plant species means a greater variety of crops. Greater species diversity ensures natural sustainability for all life forms.

How do humans affect biodiversity?

Humans affect biodiversity by their population numbers, use of land, and their lifestyles, causing damage to habitats for species. ... Through proper education, and by demanding that governments make decisions to preserve biodiversity, the human population will be able to sustain life on earth longer.

Types of ecosystems:

-  Coral reefs, coral reefs are some of the most diverse ecosystems on our planet. Many aquatic animals use coral reefs for shelter and food sources. Example of a coral is the great barrier reef

Grasslands, grasslands are areas that mainly have grass as vegetation, grasslands usually provide food to grazing herbivores and their predators.

Rainforests play a vital role in the ecosystem and biodiversity, it produces 20% of oxygen in the world and provides shelter and food to animals living there.

Ecosystem loss

Ecosystem loss is due to many reasons, one being global warming.Global warming increases the temperature of the planet sparking wildfires which ruins the ecosystems of rainforests, global warming also increases the temperature of the sea which makes the corals to die off ruining the coral reef ecosystem.

Biodiversity loss:

Biodiversity loss, also called loss of biodiversity, a decrease in biodiversity within a species, an ecosystem, a given geographic area, or Earth as a whole. Likewise, biodiversity loss describes the decline in the number, genetic variability, and variety of species, and the biological communities in a given area. This loss in the variety of life can lead to a breakdown in the functioning of the ecosystem where decline has happened.

Biodiversity Loss Can Be Natural Or Human-Driven

Natural biodiversity loss

An area’s biodiversity increases and decreases with natural cycles. Seasonal changes, such as the onset of spring, create opportunities for feeding and breeding, increasing biodiversity as the populations of many species rise. In contrast, the onset of winter temporarily decreases an area’s biodiversity, as warm-adapted insects die and migrating animals leave. In addition, the seasonal rise and fall of plant and invertebrate populations (such as insects and plankton), which serve as food for other forms of life, also determine an area’s biodiversity.Biodiversity loss is typically associated with more permanent ecological changes in ecosystems, landscapes, and the global biosphere. Natural ecological disturbances, such as wildfire, floods, and volcanic eruptions, change ecosystems drastically by eliminating local populations of some species and transforming whole biological communities. Such disturbances are temporary, however, because natural disturbances are common and ecosystems have adapted to their challenges (see also ecological succession).

Indian biodiversity

India is a treasure chest of biodiversity which hosts a large variety of plants and has been identified as one of the eight important “Vavilorian” centres of origin and crop diversity. Although its total land area is only 2.4 percent of the total geographical area of the world, the country accounts for eight percent of the total global biodiversity with an estimated 49000 species of plants of which 4900 are endemic (Kumar and Asija, 2000). The ecosystems of the Himalayas, the Khasi and Mizo hills of northeastern India, the Vindhya and Satpura ranges of northern peninsular India, and the Western Ghats contain nearly 90 percent of the country's higher plant species and are therefore of special importance to traditional medicine. Although, a good proportion of species of Medicinal Plants (MP) do occur throughout the country, peninsular Indian forests and the Western Ghats are highly significant with respect to varietal richness (Parrota, 2001)

Links:

biodiversity loss | Causes, Effects, & Facts | Britannica

http://www.fao.org/3/Y4586E/y4586e09.htm

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- hunter gatherers turned into farmers who used stone and metal tools then changed into Industrial Age and now the Digital Age
- urbanisation - villages becoming towns, towns becoming cities
- immigration - people moving to cities in the Industrial Revolution;  people immigrating to more developed countries, countries like America and the UK becoming multiracial countries
- change in population of communities - causes: immigration
Japan having an ageing population becomes a problem
aboriginal peoples population in wild declining
- globalisation
rise of social media - people and societies are more connected
unheard of cultures get noticed - black popular culture
- changes cultural aspects - certain hairstyles, outfits, food gets recognised and adopted by different people
- big brands are popular all around the world due to globalisation - food companies - McDonald's, car companies etc.
- changing religions
- the change in education systems - old Indian education system vs now
- beauty standards - Fiji beauty standards change after tv is introduced
- Change in form of governments from monarchy to democracy

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TOPIC:HUMANS AND OTHER SPECIES
•the boundary between humans and other species has changed over the years
•in this topic you could write about people becoming vegetarian and vegan as it involves the relationship between humans and other species.
•you can debate how well humans share the planet with other species and if some species (including us) are more important than others?
•you can investigate whether we our population has a good relationship with other species and if countries have appropriate laws to maintain these relationships
•what are your opinions on our current relationships with other species. do you approve of keeping animals as pets and zoos?
•you could also talk about hunting
•can talk about using animal skin for fashion
•as well as how a lot of beauty products contain animal parts and how we could change that or if it even needs to be changed in the first place.
•you can talk about countries like Denmark who was the animal protection act which says that animals must be slaughtered as quickly as possible when slaughtering for food and religious purposes.
•your opinions on the fact that over 30 million dogs across Asia are stolen and killed for human consumption.Fro example in South Korea these sort of dishes are so common that they even have their own name -Gaeogi

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sustainable living.
- sustainable living is when an individual or group of individuals  reduce their usage of the earths natural resources.
- in regards/ affect on economy, environment, politics and culture.
- sustainability and corporate responsibility.
- SDG's
- sustainability among ordinary citizens.
- the risks, on the environment because of human development.
- the three R's
- interconnection between diets and sustainability.
- difference between between carbon footprint between ordinary citizen and big corporations.
- important vocabulary:
Recyclable
Biodegradable
Ecology
Economical
Ethical
Fair Trade
Green
Humane
Organic
Single-origin
Vegetarian
Vegan

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The world trade organization started a program called “trade for aid” in 2005, which states that

“Aid for trade is about helping developing countries, in particular, the least developed to build the trade capacity and infrastructure they need to benefit from trade opening”

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Sustainable living

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Humans and other species

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Changing Community

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Bio diversity and Eco system