Course Overview
This course continues from RENR 3215. The focus for the second term of the Parks and Recreation Course focuses on risk mitigation strategies and determining natural disturbance regimes and the ecological and socio-economic influence of disturbance on conservation areas. The course also looks at management of visitor use and access, resource extraction impacts and incorporates indigenous perspectives on protected area resource management and access.
Prerequisite(s)
- RENR 3215 or instructor's approval.
Credits
7.5
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Design and evaluate risk mitigation strategies for traveling in the backcountry, considering factors like fire, avalanches, wildlife, and terrain.
- Determine natural disturbance regimes for a variety of sites around BC and understand how these disturbances influence ecology and social lenses in protected areas.
- Classify visitor use levels in protected areas and relate this to management strategies.
- Analyze how forest harvesting, mining and other resource industries in the province interact with protected areas and their governance, including perspectives through Indigenous communities and land stewards.
- Justify claims in writing and discussions based on material learned in course, and formulate new solutions to proposed land stewardship issues (through ecological, economic, and social lenses).
Effective as of Winter 2024
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