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AN ISSUE
WHAT
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2016
What is an Issue?
• This course is called "Canadian and World Issues: A
Geographic Analysis." When you chose to take this
course, you undoubtedly expected to learn about
issues.
• What is an issue?
• More specifically,
• What are Canadian issues and what are world issues?
• Are they similar or different?
• By completing the following activity, you should gain a
better understanding about the concept of an issue,
which issues are primarily Canadian in nature, which are
primarily global, and which ones span both
geographical perspectives.
THE NATURE OF ISSUE
WE SHOULD NOTICE THAT WHEN IT COMES TO
ISSUES THERE ARE 4 TYPES
1. Important and Interesting Issues
• By their nature, issues in this group, like
climate change, should and do get a grea
deal of attention.
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Unimportant and Uninteresting Issues
How often you clean your room is of little
importance and interest to the rest of the
world
U and U issues usually get the amount of
issues they disserve – none!
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Unimportant but Interesting Issues
Because they are highly interesting
issues, like the seal hunt, get a great deal
of attention.
Unimportant but interesting issues tend to
detract attention from the ones that are
more important.
Important and uninteresting Issues
Falls into the category of affecting
billions of people, yet they get little
attention
ANSWERS TO HOW AN ISSUE MAY
BE INTERRELATED.
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All Issues can be interrelated the following ways
Political
Environmental
Social
Economic
The next four slides will define each of the above
and how they affect an issue.
To better understand the complex implications of
global warming, let's use a "framework" and group
these implications into the four areas described.
POLITICAL:
• Politics is about power and control.
• Any organization (for example, a
government or a multinational corporation)
that designs, administers, and makes
judgments about rules or control, has power.
• When there are global problems, it is
necessary to identify who controls the
situation.
• However, when there is no clear controlling
power, solutions become more complex.
ENVIRONMENTAL:
• Environmental features are those that
impact both the natural environment (for
example, a rain forest) and the environment
within which people interact with nature (for
example, a village or city).
• Environmental considerations can either be
localized (such as a water shortage in a
village in India) or they can be global (such
as the impact of global warming on the
earth's oceans).
SOCIAL:
• Social factors are those having to do with
interpersonal relations or the relations
among communities, and include cultural
factors.
• "Culture" describes the customs, values, and
other forms of human endeavor
characteristic of a particular community.
• Our lifestyles - the way we work, the way we
learn, what we eat, where we live, what we
do in our free time, the way we dress, the
music we listen to, and even the way we
relate to our friends and families - are part of
our culture and our social systems.
ECONOMIC:
• In discussing economic impact, we should consider
an issue's financial costs. These financial costs would
take the following into consideration.
• the cost of having a problem in the first place and
the cost of its remedy
• and the financial benefits resulting from proposed
solutions.
• Because most issues have political,
environmental, social, and economic
implications, it is helpful to organize an issue into
these four basic areas
• Take the piece of paper I just handed you. Fold
the paper into four sections.
• Unfold the paper and label each section into
either a political, environmental, social, or
economic section
Political
Social
Environmental
Economic
Political
Social
Environmental
Economic
Use this chart to help you interpret all issues that we deal with this year.
Each issue we will deal with will belong to each category in some way
but will always lean more strongly with one box.