EDRD 3500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Eof, Parks Canada, Tokenism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Design and Rural Development
• Course: EDRD 3500
• Professor: Marianne Staempfli

Document Summary

Outcomes: discuss economic, socio-cultural, and environmental impacts, describe impact assessments and determine their objectives; and, apply case scenarios to various impacts assessment tools. The nature of impacts: most people assume recreation is a good activity with no negative impacts but this is not true. Impacts linked to 2 groups: impacts on the individual user, user of services due to participation in the actitivty as well as involvement in the planning and development process, impacts to the community or the environment. Impacts cause benefits and constraints: impacts can be positive or negative in nature. Impacts are generally grouped into economic, socio-cultural and environmental: each can influence community at large or its citizens. If the people"s recreation needs and expectations are different: mountain bikers and hikers, surfers and swimmers, park users who expect different things from park, music performances but noise was upsetting neighbourhood and othe users that want to relax.