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GEOG 3411

Resource Management and Sustainability

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2024

Topics

  • actively manage their own time and participation in course activities. Students are expected
  • Complete all assigned readings/viewings
  • Complete bi-weekly quizzes and other assignments
  • Develop a comprehensive understanding of contemporary resource management
  • issues and practice in Canada, and the governance tools available to achieve
  • sustainable resource use
  • Develop critical and analytic thinking skills
  • issues
  • don’t assume everything you read/watch has considered all relevant
  • viewpoints
  • ensure better outcomes? Whose perspectives have been prioritized/left
  • out in decision-making?
  • Develop practical knowledge and skills
  • Use of case studies and professional insights. Let’s focus on what works! It’s
  • easy to sit back and identify flaws, it’s much harder to do the job right
  • Consider: What would management of this issue look like in practice? What
  • would I do if I were working in this field?

Readings

  • Required: Mitchell, B 2015. Resource and Environmental Management in Canada: Addressing Conflict and Uncertainty, 5th Edition. Toronto, Ontario: Oxford University Press.
  • Required: Mitchell, B. 2019. Resource and Environmental Management, 3rd Edition. New York, New York: Oxford University Press.
Winter 2019

Topics

  • (Assigned Readings)
  • Precautionary Principle (Mitchell: Introduction)
  • Conflicts and Uncertainty in RM (Mitchell: )
  • International Economic Agreements (Mitchell
  • Current Issues with FTA, NAFTA, GATT, etc. ( canadians.org/trade )
  • Nature's Services (Daily et al., 1997)
  • Nature's Services (Daily et al., 1997 )
  • Ecosystem Management (Mitchell: and Grumbine, 1994)
  • Community-Based Resource Management (Mitchell: and Berkes, 1995)
  • Conventional vs. Alternative Agriculture (Mitchell: )
  • Organic Certification ( www.ocia.org see: Get Certified )
  • Silviculture (Mitchell: )
  • New Forestry (Franklin,1989)
  • Wildlife Issues (Mitchell: )
  • Parks and Protected Areas (Mitchell: )
  • Canadian Fisheries (Mitchell: )
  • Water Resource Management (Mitchell: ) (www.canadians.org/water)
  • Eliminating Waste (Completely!!) (Mitchell: )
  • Braungart)

Readings

  • 1. Mitchell (5th ed.): Resource and Environmental Management in Canada
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