R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Human Services, Live Action Role-Playing Game
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Rural as a place where natural processes predominate, where ecological balance is fragile, where human impacts must be limited. Rural as a wilderness in need of taming, as a reserve of natural resources for human services, as a resilient and adaptive environment etc . Chapter 7 summary: periods of public land policy. Ab government viewed the landscape as a collection of commodities (resources waiting to be exploited) Government assumed the role of real estate agent. Special areas act: enacted to ensure proper usage of the land in the very dry baron areas of southern alberta. White zones and green zones white: agriculture yellow: central region (around city) green: forested area. Shift in thinking about the landscape [pg. 156 talks about a transition in thinking about which elements of nature were considered useful and how people should and could interact with the environment]
