Course Overview
The course focuses on the development of current sustainable development concepts and principles, and how these principles impact and relate to the day to day SRM technologists tasks in for those working in BC. Discussion includes an overview of the historical development of SRM concepts, environmental ethics, global sustainable development issues, and some of the challenges related to the implementation SRM principles Topics include governance issues related to local government, provincial and federal jurisdiction, aboriginal rights, and the roles major provincial and federal ministries and departments play in resource management. Discussion will also include the industrial structure and socio-economic characteristics within BC’s major development regions. An overview of the provincial biogeophysical resources will also be reviewed.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe the concepts of sustainable resource management.
- Describe the historical development of sustainable development.
- List important implementation issues related to sustainable development, such as wealth distribution, future generation requirements, and maintaining biodiversity.
- Provide examples of how individuals can influence the implementation and impact of sustainable development principles.
- Describe interelationships between global issues, BC resource management practice, community planning, and the development of the built environment.
- Describe how sustainable development concepts have influenced current BC government policies.
- Describe the role and importance of how technologist level employment tasks play in implementing sustainable development.
- Discuss each of the roles and responsibilities of major provincial and federal ministries and departments, and local government, in sustainable resource management.
- Discuss important issues related to population demographics and employment trends found in various BC communities and regions.
- Discuss the role land tenure plays in paying for the costs and deriving benefits for the use of resources.
- Discuss the implications of using taxation incentives, royalties and subsidies to influence industrial and community development.
- Describe how significant historical government policies that have influenced the development of BC industry and community structure.
- Analyse the tools and principles being applied to a minimize the potential for boom-bust economies, and support the development of sustainable communities.
- Describe how the principles of biodiversity are being incorporated in BC planning processes and management activities.
- Describe the role natural resources play in shaping the current BC economy.
- Analyze the extent of the resources required from rural areas to sustain the urban development.
- Describe the importance of various resource industries to the provincial economy, and government revenues.
- Discuss issues related to the impacts associated with industries such as aggregate extraction, agriculture, fisheries, electrical generation, forestry, mining, and tourism.
- Access important sources of BC socio-economic information.
- 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.
Effective as of Fall 2011
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