Geography 2010A/B Final: Final Exam Vignettes

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2010A/B
• Professor: Mark Moscicki

Document Summary

Vignette 5. 5 tragedy of urban sprawl: urban sprawl devours valuable but underpriced agricultural land. Since the economic value of urban industrial classified land is higher than land designated for agricultural uses, urban/industrial encroachment continues to spread into the rural landscape. Although ontario has over half of the best agriculture land in canada, urban encroachment and other non-agricultural interests have cut deeply into the amount of farm land. For instance, over the three decades between 1976 and 2006, nearly 200,000 acres or 25% of the provinces class i agricultural land was lost. Even the extremely valuable lands in the niagara fruit belt remain under pressure from residential and commercial land developers. An indirect impact of urban sprawl is the release of more greenhouse gases because of the longer drives from suburbia to places of work. Ontario has put into place measures like the greenbelt plan, the places to grow act, and the.