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    This document outlines the STEEPH (SHEEP) factors that influence how places, phenomena, and resources develop in geography. The factors are: Social, relating to characteristics of people and society. Technological, arising from changes in technology. Economic, relating to finances and wealth distribution. Environmental, relating to the physical environment. Political, relating to decision making processes. Historical, factors from the past that still influence present conditions, even if no longer operating. These overlapping factors should be considered to explain how a place, phenomenon, or resource has developed. The relative influence of each factor can be assessed.

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    This document outlines the STEEPH (SHEEP) factors that influence how places, phenomena, and resources develop in geography. The factors are: Social, relating to characteristics of people and society. Technological, arising from changes in technology. Economic, relating to finances and wealth distribution. Environmental, relating to the physical environment. Political, relating to decision making processes. Historical, factors from the past that still influence present conditions, even if no longer operating. These overlapping factors should be considered to explain how a place, phenomenon, or resource has developed. The relative influence of each factor can be assessed.

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    This document outlines the STEEPH (SHEEP) factors that influence how places, phenomena, and resources develop in geography. The factors are: Social, relating to characteristics of people and society. Technological, arising from changes in technology. Economic, relating to finances and wealth distribution. Environmental, relating to the physical environment. Political, relating to decision making processes. Historical, factors from the past that still influence present conditions, even if no longer operating. These overlapping factors should be considered to explain how a place, phenomenon, or resource has developed. The relative influence of each factor can be assessed.

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    VCE Unit 1 and 2 Geography

    Geographical Skills: STEEPH (SHEEP) factors

    A factor is a process or activity which influences how a place, phenomena or resource develops. It includes
    processes and activities such as the presence of natural features, climate, the construction of infrastructure,
    population growth and government policies. In explaining the factors influencing a place, phenomena or resources,
    students classify the factors according to whether they emanate from social, historical, economic, environmental,
    political or technological realms.

    Figure 7.1: The overlap of social, environmental and economic factors

    Social: those factors attributable to the characteristics of people and society and culture. It includes population size
    and dynamics, the issues relating to education, health, living conditions and crime, cultural, language and religious
    aspects, characteristics of its workforce, and features relating to ethnicity, class and gender.

    Technological: those factors arising from changes in the technology, skills, crafts and knowledge available. It
    includes the development of new means of developing resources or various other human endeavours. Advance in
    technology may have a significant impact how resources are used, such as the intensification of farming, the use of
    new technology to track and capture fish, and the use of infrastructure to store and transport water.

    Economic: those factors relating to the finances and the distribution of wealth, such as profits, employment,
    investment, exports and trade balances, debt, taxes, currency and exchange rates, inflation, Gross National Product,
    wages, the cost of commodities and services, etc.

    Environmental: those factors relating to the environment. This includes aspects of the built environment, such as
    urban spaces, transport facilities and other infrastructure, as well components of the physical and ecological world in
    the biosphere, the atmosphere, the lithosphere, and the hydrosphere, including climate, rocks, minerals and soils, air,
    landforms, flora and fauna.

    Political: those factors relating to the decision-making process. It can relate to government policies and laws on a
    local, state, national, regional or global scale. It also includes factors which have developed through community and
    non-government organisations, the union movement, wars and civil disruption. Laws, policies, regulations, tariffs,
    taxes, zoning, government controls, treaties, trade embargoes are examples of political factors which can influence
    phenomena.

    Historical: those factors (social – including cultural - technological, economic, environmental or political) which may
    not be operating today, but have occurred in the past and have left a lasting impact. The influence of these factors is
    still evident today, even though circumstances have changed. It may, for example, explain the location or distribution
    of a phenomenon, the architecture or design of the built environment, the work culture or language spoken.

    Some factors may be more influential than others in contributing towards how a phenomenon develops. It is therefore
    possible to assess the relative contribution of various factors towards a particular phenomenon, and determine which
    have been dominant.
    VCE Unit 1 and 2 Geography
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