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GEOG 101: Last Day!

GEOG 101: Last Day!. Review for the Final. Housekeeping Items. Alternatives Journal doesn’t publish a hard copy of their university guide anymore, but you can find it at: http:// www.alternativesjournal.ca/community/education Did anyone go to the film on GMOs last week?

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GEOG 101: Last Day!

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  1. GEOG 101: Last Day! Review for the Final

  2. Housekeeping Items • Alternatives Journal doesn’t publish a hard copy of their university guide anymore, but you can find it at: http://www.alternativesjournal.ca/community/education • Did anyone go to the film on GMOs last week? • I have an evaluation form about the course I would like to get you to fill out. It also gives you a chance to evaluate your own participation.

  3. GEOGRAPHY 101 FINAL EXAM GUIDE • The exam will cover the material from Chapters 12 to 23, even those that were not covered extensively in class. • How fresh water is used around the world, with allowance for geographic differences. • Problems affecting the ecology and food webs of the oceans. • The sources of air pollution in different parts of the world and its effects. • The nature and sources of climate change, why it is a major threat, and how it ties in with a system of feedback loops. • What caused the ozone layer to thin out. • Different kinds of fossil fuels, their benefits and impacts. • The concept of peak oil. • Alternative conventional fuels, both fossil and others. • Renewable forms of energy, and their strengths and limitations.

  4. GEOGRAPHY 101 FINAL EXAM GUIDE • The nature of the waste stream in Canada and the U.S. and what can and is being done about it. • Four kinds of environmental hazards. • Ways in which Canada and the U.S. profit from exporting products they themselves have banned. • Why cities are both part of the problem of sustainability and potentially part of the solution. • Definition and origin of urban sprawl. • What the movements ‘smart growth’ and ‘new urbanism’ are about. • Why moving away from automobile dependence towards other forms of transportation is so crucial to making cities more sustainable.

  5. GEOGRAPHY 101 FINAL EXAM GUIDE • What ethics has to do with our current ecological crisis. • The difference between anthropocentrism, biocentrism, and ecocentrism. • Places in the world where anthropocentrism is being challenged. • In what sense is the current economy both circular and linear? • The conflict between conventional economic perspectives and ecological perspectives. • The notion of (currently) unpriced ecosystem services and externalities. • Some of the key precepts of ecological economics. • Why Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is not necessary an accurate reflection of social well-being.

  6. GEOGRAPHY 101 FINAL EXAM GUIDE • What is traditional knowledge? • What environmental policies are. • Key elements of environmental policies – for instance, at universities like VIU. • Different approaches to environmental policies. • Different strategies for changing institutions in a more sustainable direction (not limited to what we discussed in class). • Different strategies for changing individuals/ households in a more sustainable direction (not limited to what we discussed in class). • What are some positive things being done in different parts of the world to move us in a more sustainable

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