GEOG 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ecosystem Services, Ketoprofen, Urban Renewal
22 Jun 2016
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Unit 3: addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation (week 3) Humans began to actively modify the environment when they first developed agriculture in circa 9000 to. 7000 bce: ancestors began to domesticate plants and animals and increasingly learned how to manipulate the world around them. It was during the industrial revolution (circa 1750) in great britain and then spread through western. Reliance on energy and fossil fuel-based energy grew throughout the 1800s and afterward. In the 1820s, railroads began to be used to transport goods and people. In the 1880s, the first patent for a gas-fueled was granted to karl benz (industrial revolution began in. Large scale car production began in canada in 1904: in next 2 decades, trucks were increasingly used to transport goods need for more roadways (associated habitat loss and fragmentation) and dependence on fossil fuels for energy.
