GEOG 2RC3 : chapter 10

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 2RC3
• Professor: Walter Peace

Document Summary

In many ways, the challenges & issues facing northerners symbolize the nation s sense of purpose & suggest the course of its future dvlpt. Images: identity, landscape, resources, sense of northerness , sense of isolation . Nordicity: yukon, nwt, nunavut political focus & boundaries, yet image is env tal (tundra, resources ) & psychological (isolation, northerness) Resources (energy, minerals) resource frontier economic focus. 2006 aboriginal ppltn as % of total ppltn. North 51. 7% relative to the rest of canada: . 3% of canada s ppltn (101,300) (31. 6m, 2011) . 5% of cnd s gdp: 39% of cnd s area. Arctic/subarctic boundary 10 degrees isotherm for july coincides (approx) w/ tree line (long-term effects of global warming: permafrost, sea ice, vegetation. Fragile ecosystem : ppltn instability, slow veg. recovery, low species diversity, simple food/energy chains, ppltn cycles (i. e. lemmings, snowly owls, arctic foxes, wildlife (polar bears, churchill, man. )