Environment & Resource Management Circle of Life Environment & Resource Management

The Circle of Life We Are All Connected Availability of Resources Implications of Resource Dependency

We Are All Connected “What goes up, must come down.” “What goes around, comes around.” “We are all part of the Great Circle of Life.”

We Are All Connected Land Use Patterns Humans and the environment sharing the same spaces… At right is the Map Schedule to the Town of Whitby’s Official Plan.

We Are All Connected Transportation Networks Confederation Bridge

We Are All Connected Transportation Networks Channel Tunnel Rail Link

(Brock Road, Pickering) We Are All Connected Transportation Networks 407 East Extension Eventual Terminus (Hwy 35/115, Clarington) Current Terminus (Brock Road, Pickering) ACVI

Greater Toronto Area Airports But the GTA is growing…

We Are All Connected Transportation Networks Pickering Airport Stouffville Lakeridge Road York-Durham Line Markham Highway 7 Taunton Road Whitby Ajax Pickering Toronto

Pickering Airport Impacts Lands Protected by Federal Zoning Restrictions Take-off and Landing Flight Paths Area with a “25” Noise Exposure Forecast.

Pickering Airport Runways Hamlet of Claremont Highway 7 & Brock Road

Pickering Airport Watersheds

Pickering Airport Soil Quality

Pickering Airport Environmental Areas

Pickering Airport Transit

Pickering Airport Land Uses

Availability of Resources The Human Population Game

Resource Dependency Farmers

Resource Dependency Lumber Companies

Alabama, 1990 & 1996

Resource Dependency Tourists