ENVS 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nutmeg, Adaptive Capacity, Social Capital

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Sciences
• Course: ENVS 2270
• Professor: Kim Bolton

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Transportation: walk, bike, public transportation, fuel efficient car, decrease/eliminate air travel. Energy: reduce home heating and electricity use, energy efficient appliances. Food: decrease or eliminate meat from diet, eat locally. Mitigation corridors: plants, animals and biology, species are changing their range and moving closer to poles/further up mountains, human infrastructure is affecting this movement, humans building migration corridors, ex. natural overpasses/bridges over highways. Identify most climatically stable geographical areas: protect and connect those areas to ensure species survival, translocate species, pote(cid:374)tial refugia for arti(cid:272) spe(cid:272)ies: yuko(cid:374)"s peel river watershed. Assisted migration: help species move, quite controversial, florida nutmeg: endangered by warmer temperatures, attempts to transfer them outside their current range into their potential range. Assisted migration forestry: artificial reforestation, trials in bc: allow seeds to be planted further north, better species adapt to environment = more yield. Green roofs: reduce heat inside houses, lower energy use (mitigation, reduce air pollution, filter rainwater, reduce storm water runoff, provide habitat.