GEOG 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ecotourism, Profit Motive, Bangkok
9 May 2016
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Video one local driving forces of gec: land use and cover. Diff society relations produce diff changes to the earth i. e hunting gathering societies don"t cause massive permanent change to the global surface, have a localized effect. Transformations were generally small enough to not cause global effects. Change caused by industrialized society is diff in magnitude, pace and kind (unprecedented speed of change, major changes: now hope to gain an understanding of how the earth is changing. Global environmental change: global environmental change: changes in biophysical environment manifesting at global scale or local scale but so widespread as to constitute a global phenomenon, we can think of gec as capturing two kinds of change: Systemic: physical impact of the activity has global effects, may occur in only one/particular locations, but has large scale impacts on the world, i. e greenhouse gas emissions.
