Welcome to Environmental Resource Management!
This course investigates the complexity and fragility of ecosystems and the pressures human activities place on them. Students will examine ecological processes, the principles of sustainability, and strategies for resource management, with a focus on the challenges of environmental degradation and resource depletion. Students will use geotechnologies and skills of geographic inquiry to explain and evaluate various approaches to achieving a more sustainable relationship between people and their environment.
OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
Geographic Foundations: Space and Systems:
Human-Environment Interactions:
Global Connections
Understanding and Managing Change
Methods of Geographic Inquiry and Communication
Geographic Foundations: Space and Systems:
- analyse how the earth’s major components – the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere – interact and are interdependent;
- explain how key ecological processes contribute to ecosystem health;
- analyse how the distribution of ecosystems has been and continues to be influenced by natural conditions
Human-Environment Interactions:
- explain significant short-term and long-term effects of human activity on the natural environment;
- analyse and evaluate interrelationships among the environment, the economy, and society;
- analyse patterns of resource availability and use.
Global Connections
- analyse environmental and resource management issues and explain their global implications;
- explain how population growth affects the sustainability of global ecosystems;
- evaluate the effectiveness of the efforts of the international community to deal with environmental and resource management issues.
Understanding and Managing Change
- evaluate the impact of economic, social, political, and technological change on natural and human systems;
- explain the purpose of environmental laws and regulations at the local, provincial, and national levels and evaluate their effectiveness over time;
- evaluate a variety of approaches to resolving environmental and resource management concerns on a local, regional, and national scale.
Methods of Geographic Inquiry and Communication
- use the methods and tools of geographic inquiry to locate, gather, evaluate, and organize inforrmation about environmental and resource management issues and concerns ;
- analyse and interpret data gathered through research and investigation, using a variety of methods and geotechnologies;
- communicate the results of inquires, using appropriate terms and concepts and a variety of forms and techniques.
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