The provincial government has scrapped the Coastal Protection Act; instead, it downloaded coastal problems to the municipalities and individual landowners (see post Two Emails).
The Coastal Zone is essentially a geographic problem. Here is my question. Has the government approached the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) scientists and faculty?
They have the technology and tools to monitor changes in land use (e.g. GIS and Remote Sensing).
In addition, the Applied Geomatics Research Group (AGRG) under Tim Webster has access to field equipment to monitor changes in the coastal zone.
If the plan is to download the problem to municipalities, do these organizations have access to these tools and trained staff? Do Planning graduates from COGS have these skills? ( see previous blog)
From my perspective, the NSCC should ensure there is a sufficient number of graduates with both the technical skills and the geographic science.
I will forward this blog to Tim, to find out whether AGRG has been approached to provide both types of expertise. The Coastal Zone remains a critical component of both the economic and environmental future of Nova Scotia. We need to prepare for this future, through education and training.
Home reading includes Garry Leeson’s The Secret of the Spring.
The location is Spa Springs, just outside of Middleton. The story is fiction. Leeson has also written The Dome Chronicles about the back-to-the-land movement in rural Nova Scotia.
Acknowledgements
Edward added the graphics and links.
Reference
Garry Leeson, 2021, The Secret of the Spring, Moose House Press.
Ernest Blair Experiment 