Geo Book 1 Chapter 1 Flashcards
(18 cards)
Realationship between natural areas+ People
(Mutually dependent)
- Mutually dependant:
+ People: - Ensure that the nature areas and wildlife thrive
- Encourage one another to enjoy the nature areas without damaging
- Example: NParks provide the Green Wave activity to educate students about the importance of natural area.
+ Nature area:
-Provide essentials
-Living organism to pollinate crops
-Provide recreational space to reduce stress, improve physical health - e.g: N-parks garden to train physical health, reduce stress.
Relationship (Nature+ People)
(Mutually affect)
People:
-enhance biodiversity (enhance shelter and habitat for urban wildlife)
Environment:
- give green spaces for people to improve their mental health and well-being.
Nature area benefits to human?
-Lower air temperature:
+ Provide shades
+ Cool the surrounding through evapotranspiration.
-Removal of pollutants
+ Through photosynthesis, plants absorb carbon dioxide and other air pollutants, release oxygen.
+ Improving water quality, wetplants can trap suspended materials, excess nutrients in water.
-Provision of recreational space:
+Opportunities for outdoor activities
+Frequent and direct interactions
=> Improve wellbeing, reduce severity of health conditions
How people benefits nature area?
- Local communities raise awareness about the value of nature areas, encouraging positive behavior
E.g: NParks citizen trains participants to identify different dragonfly, raise awareness about their importance to the environment - Organize/ participate in conversation efforts
+ Clean up programmes to remove pollutants, restore habitates
e.g: waterways clean-up programme=> school pick up trash from marina resevoir
Damage people bring to nature area?
- Soil erosion, damaging vegetation
+people hiking
=> trample on trees, cause soil compaction
e.g: 2014, human activities cause soil erosion in bukit timah nature reserve (limit them to access in 2 years) - worsening pollution, disturbing wildlife
+ littering
+ animals get cut by metal cans/ consume the litter
+ feeding wildlife=> changes in habits
=> animals associate food with people
e.g: feeding wildlife will be fined 5000 on the first time.
Reasons for increasing wildlife-human encounters
+ Increase in human-wildlife encounter can be
- Urban expansion
=> Wildlife venture out search for food
=> Increasing encounter
- Growing interest in outdoor activities
=> Increasing encounter
- Greening efforts by the state
=> Bring nature back to the city
=> Increase encounter
Disadvantage of wildlife to human
- Increase in wild-life human encounter
=> People don’t know how to deal with wildlife may unintentionally provoke them, leading to attacks - Animals will be confused when venture into unfamiliar urban spaces=> triggered=> attacks
- Enviromental protection
=> Limiting developing
For example: Cross Island MRT: supposed to build around, not under, to protect rainforest=> Build under - some people: Inconvinience, damage propery, home accquired to make ways
Sense of place?
- Emotional attachment, meanings, importance, memories people associate with specific places
=> Relects relationshi, build indentiity - One location may hold different memories to people
+ E.g: Hawker centres: - Homemakers: Convinience to buy food
- Elderlies: Leisure, talk to friends
How to build sense of place
- Repeated encounters with objects, people
- Help recall character, features of the place
=> Create memories
e.g: Have vivid memories of scenic along East Coast parkway as it’s the route where they returned home. - Significance memorable events at local landmarks or gathering places
- landmarks: highly visible
- it serves symbolic or historical purposes
e.g: Truss bridges in Bukit Timah
=> many people take photos there because of unique design
=> Create memories and sense of place
- Our interactions with people at everyday places
=> Develop sense of belonging
- Places may not be highly visually distinctive but it serves as a place where people gather
e.g: Jurong East garden
How sense of place represented
- Different forms and tupes of media by individuals or organizations
=> Reflect people memories, ideas of the place - Texts, audios, graphics
- Share through print media, broadcast media, internet-based media
eg: Using #sgmemory to share photographs of their memorable experiences on instagram
How representations of sense of place enhance/ contradict an individual’s sense of place?
- Different representations that enhance/ contradict our sense of place
- Sense of place shape our identity, so sense of place may enhance when we see representations that agree with our feelings about the place
- We may disagree with representations that contradicts, hurt our feelings about that place
=> respond defensively
What are regions
Area with similar physical/human characteristic.
- VAry in size
- Classified by:
+ Human characteristic: commerical or residential area
+ Geographical characteristic: east or west
+ Environmental characteristic: Nature area or built up
- Sphere of influence of objects, services and events
Spatial patterns
- Non-random arrangements (recognizable as shapes, clusters, geometry, repeated occurences at regular intervals)
=> Understand world around
Spatial associations
Tendency of a pair of servies, events and objects
- example: bus interchange and mrt stattion
Spacial scales
- Extent of an area which a phenomeon or process take place
- Hierachies: global, regional, local
Town
- 20 towns in SGP
- In each town: Town centre, intergrated transport hub(bus interchanges, trains), gathering place, extensive roads
=> Lower cost, reduce transport time, attract buisinesses,
Precinct
- 400-800 residential units
- Close proximity, serving residents’ everyday need.
- Facilities: playground, community garden, linkways, bus stops in regular intervals
Neighborhood
- 4000-6000 residental units
- Each town comprises a few precincts.
- Surrounding town centre
