{"id":2669,"date":"2025-11-17T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:57:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:57:46","slug":"geog315","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"GEOG315"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Field trip for GEOG315 Environmental Change and Management<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aim: Assess the sustainable management of environmental and cultural values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hypothesis: Unmanaged human activity has detrimental effects on sensitive ecosystems and historical values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Procedure: Study the historic lighthouse site at Cape Leeuwin and draw conclusions about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The various ecosystems present<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The geomorphology of the coastline<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The cultural and economic significance of the site<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The built environment 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Environmental Change and Management Aim: Assess the sustainable management of environmental and cultural values. Hypothesis: Unmanaged human activity has detrimental effects on sensitive ecosystems and historical values. Procedure: Study the historic lighthouse site at Cape Leeuwin and draw conclusions about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}