GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kyoto Protocol, Staples Thesis, Periphery Countries

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne Godlewska

Document Summary

Canada"s economy and society had evolved through stages of resource extraction . Fish, furs, forestry, grains, and now energy. Canadian governments have always prioritized extractive industries. From the 16th century the global economy became increasingly structured into core, periphery and semi- periphery countries. Core = global producers of high value goods. We depend on the us which can make us a semi-periphery country. High consumption because of how energy is priced, climatic reasons, suburbs. Canada is significant emitter of carbon dioxide. In 1997 canada sign a kyoto protocol in agreement to reduce emissions , repudiated in. They knew that they would not have been able to meet emissions targets because the rise of the oil sands. We have many energy sources at our disposal. Primary energy: energy embodied in sources where humans induced extraction : oil, gas, nuclear.