GEOG306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Environmental Planning, Ecosystem Diversity, Environmental Values
8 May 2019
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Swsp: assessment of vulnerability to source water land disturbance. Mississippi river basin: 5,970 km, 4th largest watershed in the world, area ~ 1. 2 million miles2, discharge 600,000 cfs includes all or parts of 31 states and 2 canadian provinces. Predicted change: environmental change, potential to lose an additional 771-1756 square miles of land over the next 50 years. Week 1: materials are starting to de-water; the water within particles is being removed, changes in the river system and climate, communities at risk, potential for expected annual damages to reach . 7 to . 4 billion. Gradients: as you move southwestern, you will have changes in moisture and materials, components of gradients, elevation, temperature, moisture, geology/soils. Productivity and carrying capacity: productivity rate of energy fixation or storage per unit time, high productivity ex. Slave river delta, nwt: low productivity ex. Suburb, delaware: carrying capacity level of development density of use an environment is able to support without suffering undesirable or irreversible damage.
