Geography 2010A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Urban Sprawl, Western Alienation In Canada, Cultural Area
6 Feb 2017
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Current issues facing canada: climate change, air quality, energy demands, contaminated drinking water, border security, trade, tensions between french and english, exploitation of resources, native land disputes, arctic sovereignty (ownership of the arctic waters) Introduction of exotic species: western alienation, federal transfer payments, spread of new disease, deforestation, urban sprawl. Inaccessibility of the north: economic disparity among regions. Regionalism: the division of a large area into different parts: some countries are more prone to regionalism than others, including canada, usa, russia, Vast geographic size and varied physical geography. The british north america act (1867) gave considerable power to the provinces: region: a distinctive area of earth"s surface. It has distinguishing human or natural characteristics that set it apart from other areas. The boundaries of regions are related to faultlines. These are not physical fault lines; instead, they are differences between two different areas whether it be geographic, cultural, etc: approaches to identifying regions.
