GEOG 203 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Canada, Wildlife, Ecosystem
20 Nov 2018
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Important to regard the role that canada plays in global environmental change (both as the second-largest country on earth and as a source of major carbon resources [forests and oil reserves] [natural] resources: quality [value]: extrinsic (value that it has for human)/intrinsic, type: renewable [flow] and non-renewable [stock] June 2014: the government of canada accepts the independent panel"s recommendation to impose 209 conditions on northern gateway. Perspectives on the environment: sustainable development: two key concepts. The concept of (cid:498)needs(cid:499) in particular the essential needs of the world"s poor, to which environment"s ability to meet present and future needs overriding priority should be given; State indicators: quantity and quality of physical phenomena (temperature), biological phenomena (fish stocks, extinctions) and chemical phenomena (co2 concentrations, phosphorus loading, indicate state of a current environmental system and track trends over time, ex: ppm of co2. Overall commitment to repair environmental damage and create a path toward sustainability.
