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Geography and the Environment

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Streaming videos and documentaries provide visual and narrative insights into geographical phenomena, environmental issues, and human-environment interactions. Whether you are exploring urban planning, environmental management, climate studies, or other areas within geography, these resources can offer engaging and informative perspectives.

For human geography students, streaming videos and documentaries can be particularly useful for understanding urban development, cultural geography, population dynamics, economic geography, and social issues. You might look for documentaries that cover urban planning projects, cultural practices, demographic changes, economic systems, and social movements.

For physical geography students, streaming videos and documentaries are essential for studying natural processes and features. You can find content on climate science, geomorphology, hydrology, biogeography, and environmental management. These resources will help you visualize weather patterns, landforms, water cycles, ecosystems, and sustainability efforts.

 

Films (DVDs and Streaming Video) Subject Guide

Streaming Video

KPU subscribes to 3 streaming video collections:

All the titles in the Films on Demand collection can also be searched through the Library Catalogue.  Below are some examples:

Click here to Limit to the Geography Collection

Note: All titles can be viewed from onsite or from offsite by entering you Student or Employee # and your password; you do not need a Films on Demand account.

Westland Digitized Collection

UBC Library Digital Collections

UBC Library Digital Collection - Westland

   this series which aired onthe  Knowledge Network from 1984 to 2007 explores a broad range of environmental issues associated with forestry practices, fresh water fisheries, endangered species, natural resource management and ecosystem restoration in British Columbia. 

Some Geography streamed titles from the Westland collection:

What If We Stopped Clearcutting?

Have We Built the Last Big Dam?