Course Overview
This course introduces students to BC's industrial major resource industries. Discussion will include each industries structure, major sources of raw materials, outputs, and their importance to the BC economy. Important land tenure and environmental issues related to each industry will also be discussed.
Prerequisite(s)
Credits
2.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Discuss issues related to the impacts associated with industries such as aggregate extraction, agriculture, fisheries, electrical generation, forestry, mining, and tourism.
- Describe the role natural resources play in shaping the current BC economy.
- Access important sources of information to obtain information on BC industries.
- Describe the industrial structure of BC development regions.
- Describe the distribution of resource use and extraction throughout the province.
- Describe the source of industrial raw materials for each of the province's major industries.
- Discuss current future trends in the production of good and services from the province's major industries.
- Describe the import and export markets for the province's major industries, and the significance these have on resource management in the province.
- Describe the importance of various resource industries to the provincial economy, and government revenues.
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2009
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