GEOG306 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: National Environmental Policy Act, Conservation Movement, Middle Ages
8 May 2019
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Chapter 1 - landscape planning: roots, problems, and content. In cities, public parks emerged in an attempt to bring nature into urban centres: public health, came about in the 19th century due to the environmentally sensitive diseases, conservation movement. In the 1800s, growing concern for the damage and loss of land and its resources as a result of development and misuse. The problem: change and impact: manufactured landscape, the age of materialism and economic expansion has produced excess resource extraction, steel, glass, concrete, plastics, waste residues and solid and hazardous wastes, mismatch with landscape: Identify dangerous zones in the environment where a use is or would be put in jeopardy of damage or destruction: risk management planning building strategies and contingency plans for coping with hazards and providing emergency relief services. Identification of the changes that a proposed action calls for or implies, followed by an evaluation of the type and magnitude of the environmental impact.
