GEOGRAPHY 145: PRESENTATION #2

RESEARCH
YOUR FOCUS for this second presentation of the semester will be population
and its impact on the environment.  To facilitate comparisons I have created
three lists of countries below.  The first is comprised of countries whose
populations are under 20 million (see 2004 World Population Data Sheet).

THE SECOND LIST has more populous countries--those in the 20-to-60 million
range.  Finally, the third column contains countries with populations of 60
million or more.  Each country listed received a "Data Availability Code" of
A or B--signifying reliable, easily available statistics--from the Population
Reference Bureau and had a full array of environmental data in the EarthTrends
Data Tables from the World Resources Institute.
 
AS THE MASTER LIST circulates through class, select one country.  It
may be from any of the lists but should be a country other than the one that
you reported on in your first oral presentation.  Once you've made a choice,
write your initials next to that country's name to claim it.  Please note that
our next oral reports--on Tuesday, October 26th; Thursday, October 28th; and
Tuesday, November 2nd--will start with countries in the first column, then
move to countries in the second column, and finally the third.  Please keep
this sequence in mind as you sign up and prepare.

THE POSSIBLE CHOICES of countries include:

    Countries with		Countries with	      Countries with
    Populations of		Populations of	      Populations of
   Under 20 Million		20-60 Million	      Over 60 Million
	     
	Bolivia			Argentina		Bangladesh
	Cambodia		Australia		Brazil
	Chile			Canada			Egypt
	Costa Rica		Colombia		France
	Ecuador			Ghana			Germany
	Jamaica			Kenya			Indonesia
	Madagascar		Peru			Italy
	Netherlands		Poland			Japan
	New Zealand		South Africa		Mexico
	Papua New Guinea	South Korea		Pakistan
	Portugal		Spain			Philippines
	Sri Lanka		Taiwan			Russia
	Sweden			Tanzania		Thailand
	Zambia			Ukraine			Turkey

 
SEARCH INTERNET AND LIBRARY resources for data and specific instances or
examples that illustrate three of that country's significant environmental
issues.  Among the issues you should consider are those suggested by the
World Resources Institute EarthTrends Data Tables:

	Agriculture and Food
	Biodiversity and Protected Areas
	Climate and Atmosphere
	Coastal and Marine Ecosystems
	Economics, Business and the Environment
	Energy and Resources
	Environmental Governance and Institutions
	Forests, Grasslands and Drylands
	Population, Health and Human Well-Being
	Water Resources and Freshwater Ecosystems


IN EACH INSTANCE look at the statistics and at the major sources of those
same numbers as listed at the end of each table.  Sometimes those sources
will be branches of the United Nations, e.g.,

	the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
		see especially FAOSTAT
	the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)


SOMETIMES the relevant sources are other international organizations like

	the World Bank Group
		see especially their Data by Country site


YOU MAY WANT to check environmental organizations for country-specific data:

	The Nature Conservancy	
	the World Wildlife Fund	

USING a CSUS campus computer or SACLINK from home can give you access to the

	CSUS Library's Databases and Periodical Indexes page
		see especially the full text databases like ScienceDirect and
		 Wiley InterScience

REPORT
SUMMARIZE your findings in three paragraphs--about 1-1 1/2 pages total--
with each paragraph devoted to one of the patterns you investigated.
DUE: on the last day of oral presentations, Tuesday, November 2nd.

YOUR THREE-MINUTE ORAL REPORT--illustrated with a least one transparency
--should be ready on Tuesday, October 26th if your country is one in either
the first or second columns above.  Reports about column 3 countries
should be ready by Thursday, October 28th.  Again, we'll try to hear all
oral reports about countries chosen from the first column before moving
successively to the second and third lists.

KEEP THE ORAL REPORT short and to-the-point.  Remind your audience of
your country's location.  Give a cogent summary of one of the country's
environmental issues as that issue is related to population characteristics.

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