ENVS195 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Integrated Water Resources Management, Fraser River, Drainage Basin
13 Mar 2017
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To appreciate different perspectives related to environment and resources. To understand different approaches to analyzing complex environmental and socio-economic systems. To understand the implications for change, complexity, uncertainty, and conflict relative to environmental issues and problems. To learn about various aspects that must be addressed to bring science to bear on environmental and resource problems. To understand the significance of sustainable development, sustainable livelihoods, and resilience. To understand the nature of human population growth. To appreciate the impacts of overconsumption on global ecosystems. To understand relevant jurisdictional and governance arrangements in canada. To (cid:396)e(cid:272)og(cid:374)ize that ca(cid:374)ada(cid:859)s (cid:374)atu(cid:396)al e(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:396)o(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) a(cid:396)e pa(cid:396)t of a glo(cid:271)al s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) To describe different ways of tracking progress among nations on environmental matters over time. Changes in natural and human systems generate challenges which make us question and think about conditions both today and in the future. Importance of using both science and social science to inform public decisions and policy making.
