ENSC 301- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 32 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENSC 301
• Professor: Graham Whitelaw

Document Summary

Institutionalized environmental assessment: designed to translate scientific data, knowledge and understanding into decision- making, what routes a road should take is taking into the alternatives of an assessment, the best alternative is taken. Strengths: forces planning agencies and some private sector interests to consider the environment easily in the decision making process. Increases public input into the planning and management process. Systems principles: systems is a way of thinking about the world, systems behave as a whole, systems understanding is observer or perspective dependent, a systems approach requires multiple perspectives, where we draw systems boundaries effects the systems. Context of ea processes: national parks, yellowstone = 1st national park ever created, canadian conservation commission/ cas, environmental movement, design with nature, esa planning/natural heritage systems, planning, environmental assessment, sustainable development, ecosystem approach. National park idea: washarn-langford-doane expedition of yellowstone 1870, hedges introduced the revolutionary idea of rather than exploit the area, waive.