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sources due to environmental degradation?” “How might land claim issues have an impact on resource development?” “How does the use of spatial technologies support groups using the First Nations Environmental Assessment Toolkit?” “How might First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities be affected by water quality, garbage disposal, and sewage treatment issues?”
C2. Identifying Environmental Patterns and Trends
FOCUS ON: Patterns and Trends; Interrelationships
By the end of this course, students will:
C2.1 analyse interactions between specific physical features and processes and human features and activities, and explore issues of sustainability related to these interactions, using a variety of spatial technologies
Sample questions: “Where are landslides or coastal erosion likely to occur? How might human activity contribute to or mitigate these hazards?” “How do spatial technologies help detect and monitor forest-fire risk areas, water quality, invasion of foreign species, and dust storms? How can this information be used to increase sustainability?” “What data layers might be used to illustrate how large recreational facilities such as golf courses, ski runs, and amusement parks might affect the use of prime agricultural land nearby?”
C2.2 analyse the changing relationships between patterns of physical features and patterns of human activity (e.g., the relationship between the spatial distribution of arable land and the location of large urban settlements), and determine the implications for sustainability, using spatial technologies
Sample questions: “How do spatial technologies help to identify landscape features, the different processes of their formation, and their changes over time?” “How do spatial technologies help to assess the location of settlements in terms of sustainability?” “How do spatial technologies help us assess the ways in which the necessity of feeding growing populations is affecting the environment?” “How do spatial technologies aid in our understanding of issues around land reclamation and the flooding of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina? How can we identify other reclaimed land that might be vulnerable to flooding or other physical processes?”
USING SPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES TO SUPPORT SUSTAINABILITY
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Spatial Technologies in Action
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