GEOG 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wicked Problem, Systems Theory, Carbon Cycle
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Today"s lecture: course objectives, course format and logistics, brief discussion of definitions. Evaluation: quiz: 15, midterm: 30, final examination: 45, participation: 10% In class clicker questions & online self-tests on readings (5% each). Lowest two self-test scores and lowest two days of clicker marks will be dropped. Renewable resource: materials that can be reused by a future generation. How do we define resources: a source of human satisfaction, wealth or strength(dictionary of human geography, anything which can contribute to human activity(oxford dictionary of economics) Anthropocentric: defined by human use and wants, humancentric point of view : 2. Instrumental: there needs to be some form of utility within(brought into existence through utility) Different types of natural resources: non-renewable resources: not replaced by environmental processes on the human scale, renewable resources: replaced by environmental processes on the human scale. It is possible to make an renewable resource non-renewable.
