PLAN104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ecolo, Grand River Conservation Authority, Aquifer

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Planning
• Course: PLAN104
• Professor: Micheal Drescher

Document Summary

Resource planning and management within the grand river watershed. Technical accountabilities: develop and apply conservation and resource management principles, policies, procedures to ensure the lt protection of biodiversity and natural heritage systems within the grand river watershed. Also to provide service and technical advice on all activities that has the potential to affect natural heritage systems, including wetlands and watercourses, and to facilitate grca"s permitting process. Biodiversity both sustains and is sustained by healthy ecosystems. Biological diversity or biodiversity means: organisms, the genetic differences among them, the communities and ecosystems in which they occur, and the ecological and evolutionary processes that keep them functioning, yet ever changing and adapting. Genes < populations and species < communities < ecosystems. Composition, structure, and function can be measured, both qualitatively and quantitatively, at each level. Natural heritage features and areas in on include.