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British Columbia in a Global Context

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This first year geography textbook takes a holistic approach to geography by incorporating elements of physical, human and regional geography, as well as bringing in methods and perspectives from spatial information science. This textbook applies a fundamental geographical approach to understanding our globally changing world by looking at local processes which are linked to larger global processes and events. For example, mining and its effects are a global issue and we can see how these unfold in BC. A further example is the recent apology to First Nation peoples on the residential school treatment, as similar events occur in the US, Ireland and Australia. Processes of urbanization, a phenomenon which people all over the globe are experiencing, can be seen in Vancouver with our discussion of the city’s development. Geography students, indeed all first-year students, need to be able to critically assess their own contexts and environments in order to properly engage with our continually globalizing world.

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BCcampus
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June 12, 2014
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Undergraduate
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Geography Instructor
Mungandi Nasitwitwi, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Content is well focused on BC.„
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Markus Heinrichs, Okanagan College
ch 1 The photo of a residential school from MANITOBA needs to be replaced by one from BC. These are available free from BC Archives e.g. http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/cgi-bin/www2i/.visual/img_med/dir_105/b_03914.gif ch 2...„

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