A Block Physical Geography - Today we'll continue our work on the foundations of Geography starting with our Geography I.D. assignment. After, we'll move on to systems. This is an important class as everything we look at in geography will be through the lens of systems science. We'll look at systems, feedback, equilibrium, and thresholds. You'll have four questions to work on today (What is a System; Define and give examples of Open and Closed Systems; Explain with examples what Positive and Negative Feedback is; and Explain in terms of systems what Dynamic Equilibrium, Thresholds, and Metastable Equilibrium are).
University of Twente System Theory
Principa Cybernetica Web What is Systems Theory
Fundamentals of Physical Geography Introduction to Systems Theory
Human Ecology Chapter 2 Populations and Feedback Systems
B Block Human Geography - Okay so I'm not a huge watch-a-"list" video kind of teacher (you know like buzzfeed's "top 10 ________ that will make you ______") but our topic for the day is "Why is each point on Earth unique?" I do like the opening for the Netflix series Sense8 as an example of the diversity of regions and for an visual explanation of why each point on earth is unique...
There are some good things to help with the concept in The Richest's "The Most Beautiful Places in the World" list video
So, we'll review our key question Why is each point on Earth unique? We'll figure out the difference between place and region (hint think scale) and talk about toponyms, (Check out the first two names on this Mental Floss article) site and situation and look at the differences between formal, functional and vernacular regions.You'll have two questions to work on for me:
- Find the names of two Canadian cities that have changed their names and explain why they changed their names
- How do people shape places? How do places shape people?
We will get back into the topic we started before the field work...worldviews and Environmental Value Systems. Last week I had you take the New Ecological Paradigm-Revised quiz. The NEP-R was designed to assess pro-environmental orientation and you discovered that differences in behavior or attitudes are often believed to be explained by underlying values, a world view, or a paradigm. So, today we’ll revisit our NEP-R scores and look at into the spectrum of EVS, from ecocentric through anthropocentric to technocentric value systems. Remember, an EVS is a worldview or paradigm that shapes the way an individual, or group of people, perceives and evaluates environmental issues, influenced by cultural, religious, economic and socio-political contexts. I will have some questions for you to answer:
- Outline how assumptions, values and beliefs and worldwide views can influence individual value systems…in other words “What has influenced your personal Environmental Value System?
- What is intrinsic value?
- How can you attach value to the biosphere?
- Which EVSs attribute intrinsic value?
- Describe and evaluate how each of the three "pure" EVSs would feel about the intrinsic value of an old growth forest
Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability
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