GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Clayoquot Sound, Cermaq, Ecological Footprint
Geog 102
Cultural Geography
Halabi
GCC
Topic 1: Environment, Economy, Society
1. Environmental Changes
2. Tourism, Resources and the Environment
3. Explaining a Complex Relationship Human Demands and Consumption, Economic
Growth, Population, Ecological Footprint
4. Understanding the Environment through Worldviews Expansionist and Ecological, ‘the
Lorax’
5. Environmentalism 1960s-1970s, post 1985, deep ecology, sustainable development
6. Environmental Values Utilitarian, Ecological, Aesthetic, Moral
7. Environmental Ethic
Fisheries and Tragedy of the Commons
1. Canada’s Marine Environments
- National context Atlantic Canada fishing industry
Canada’s Marine Environments:
● Arctic Ocean
○ Coldest ocean
○ 173 000 km of coastline
○ 1 million square kms of continental shelf
○ majority of this are covered seasonally ice 1 to 2 m thick
○ especially important for Inuit people major source of food subsistence
hunting (for survival) (dominates human-environment. Patterns in artic)
○ arctic char (small commercial industry sold for profit)
● Pacific Ocean
○ 27 000 kms of coastline (shortest)
○ narrowest continental shelf (16-32 km)
○ warmest waters a concern for fishermen and affecting fish patterns (migration,
reproduction)
○ diverse fish pop. (salmon, cod, steel head, herring, shellfish)
○ marine mammals line in, feed in or migrate through these waters
○ 2005 commercial fish employed 54000 people and generated $1.2 billion
important economic activity
○ Aquaculture production fish farming
■ it involves cultivating fish pop. Under controlled conditions
■ provide seafood
■ used to replenish fish stocks leading salmon aquaculture operations in
Cermaq in Clayoquot Sound, BC multinational corporation in e.g.
Chile, Norway and Canada
Document Summary
Topic 1: environment, economy, society: environmental changes, tourism, resources and the environment, explaining a complex relationship human demands and consumption, economic. Growth, population, ecological footprint: understanding the environment through worldviews expansionist and ecological, the. Lorax": environmentalism 1960s-1970s, post 1985, deep ecology, sustainable development, environmental values utilitarian, ecological, aesthetic, moral, environmental ethic. Fisheries and tragedy of the commons: canada"s marine environments. National context atlantic canada fishing industry. 1 million square kms of continental shelf. Majority of this are covered seasonally ice 1 to 2 m thick. Especially important for inuit people major source of food subsistence hunting (for survival) (dominates human-environment. Arctic char (small commercial industry sold for profit) Warmest waters a concern for fishermen and affecting fish patterns (migration, reproduction) Diverse fish pop. (salmon, cod, steel head, herring, shellfish) Marine mammals line in, feed in or migrate through these waters. 2005 commercial fish employed 54000 people and generated . 2 billion important economic activity.
