GEOG 1120
GEOG 1120 YAO - Environmental Issues (Winter Term)
2015–2016 · Environmental Issues – A Geographical Approach
Topics
- Environment–society relationships
- environmental systems
- ecosystem energy, succession and nutrient cycles
- climate change
- Indigenous knowledge and traditional ecological knowledge
- environmental problems and responses through technology, policy, economics and resource management.
Readings
- Text: Philip Dearden and Bruce Mitchell, Environmental Change and Challenge, 4th edition (2012, Oxford University Press).
Fall 2015 · GEOG 1120 YAO - Environmental Issues
Topics
- population growth / human footprint
- biodiversity I - energy flow & ecosystems
- discussion period I
- thanksgiving
- planning & management I – protected areas
- planning & management II - EIA
- climate change I
- climate change III – resilience & adaptation
- fisheries & oceans II
- problems & challenges
Readings
- Required: Dearden, P., and Mitchell, B. 2012. Environmental Change & Challenge 4th edition, Oxford University Press, Don Mills, ON, 606 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-544625-8
Sources
- syllabus ↗2014
- syllabus ↗2015–2016
- Course source ↗
- syllabus ↗Fall 2015
- Combined heading explicitly gives Geography/Environmental Studies 1120YA / 1140YA, with separate grading schemes for the lecture and laboratory versions.