GEO 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Northern Ontario, North Ice, Northern Canada
4 Mar 2017
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Follow the prof on twitter if you want a good grade. Geographer worked in yellowknife in 4th year undergrad. Jobs how can you get a job there: economy, sovereignty oil and gas, with melting ice, we opened up a resource sector, drilling in sea for oil. It consultant: large workforce in the north, you can connect, we offshore call centres. If we improve the call centres in the north: challenge to do higher education, build those bridges with people in the north to help them connect with online learning, course info, d2l, course info. If (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t the te(cid:454)t(cid:271)ook, do extra research on the internet. Index of northness: developed by louis-edmond hamlin (1979, a state or level of northness, real or perceived, ex, 10 elements of north. Latitude is the same level of importance as accessibility: culturally biased, some variables are difficult to quantify and poorly understood.
