A Block Physical Geography - Today we will watch the rest of the movie Home. We'll talk about the things you can do to address the problems / issues that the movie raises. Think about the title. What is our collective home? Now think about the statement from the beginning of the film...
Listen to me, please. You're like me, a homo sapiens. A wise human. Life; a miracle in the universe appeared around 4 billion years ago and we humans only 200,000 years ago, yet we have succeeded in disrupting the balance so essential to life. Listen carefully to this extraordinary story, which is yours, and decide what you want to do with it.
I cannot stress this enough...this movie is amazing! It perfectly encapsulates Geography 12...it is both a cautionary tale of human impacts and a love letter to the planet. You have a weather and climate unit final this Thursday (16th), tomorrow, Wednesday and Friday we'll look at natural and anthropogenic climate change.
B Block Human Geography - This week we begin our last topic for Human Geography - urbanization. Our focus this week will be on the services we find in rural and urban communities. Services account for more than two-thirds of GDP in most developed countries, compared to less than one-half in most developing countries. Services cluster in developed countries because more people who can buy services live there. The service sector of the economy is subdivided into three types: consumer services, business services, and public services and each of these sectors is divided into several major sub sectors.
Today we'll look at the Key Issue "Where Are Consumer Services Distributed"? Generally speaking, we spend as little time and effort as possible obtaining consumer services and therefore go to the nearest place that fulfills our needs. We travel greater distances only if the price is much lower or if the item is unavailable locally. To that end we'll look at Central Place Theory, market areas, market area analysis, range of service, threshold of service and the gravity model (of services). We'll also look at the rank-size rule and the primate city rule (in terms of services). Lastly you'll have a few questions to work on for me.
C/D Blocks Environmental and Social Sciences - Work work work...there are 9 double blocks left (7 if you count the fact we have a winter/snow field study and our MP Gord Johns is coming to speak with us as well). Please remember that if you are going out of the building (for action research or interviews) you'll need to let us know where, when, and with whom.
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