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Annexations- help in locating and confirming boundaries Census-Block
Census-Block Group/ Census Tract -smaller areas to conduct census
Delaware_Address_Pts- used as a standard reference
Delaware_Buildings_ /Delaware_Buildings_2-the location of buildings commercial ect.. in county
Delaware_Cemeteries- the areas were cemerteries own land
Delaware_Farmlots-illustrates the boundaries of farm lots within the county
Delaware_GolfCourse- the location of gulfing activities
Delaware_Municipalities-identifying boundaries within county
Delaware_Parcels- assigning property appraisals
Delaware_Parks- idnetifies the location of all the parks in the county
Delaware_PostOffice- the sitte of all the postoffieces
Delaware_Schools- the location of the schools within the township
Delaware_Subdivisions-areas of were condos and other developmental housing located
Floodplains- divided into the 100 and 500 flood plains
Historical-Archeological- there was no metadata ?
Historical-Delaware- there was no metadata ?
Historical-National-there was no metadata ?
Hydro-detail- the major water ways within the county
Master-point- has all the address mapping and matching street address and get lattitude and longatitude
Natural Heritage ODNR- sites of historic value designation natural sites
OrthophotoAp2006- had trouble loading it it kept crashing when it loaded but i assume its the areal photos of the county
Precincts-a division used for voting
Public Land Survey System- areas that the township or the county own
Rail Road- lines running through Delaware
School-type of boundary designed by the township
Soils- individual boundary of the soil types
Topography- the elevation breakdown of the county
Townships_historical- the orginial 18 townships
Traffic-MORPSE- areas of traffic and roads
Watersheds-ODNR- water drainage basen
Wetlands-areas of saturated water
Woodland-ODNR-areas covered by tree canopy
Zip2004- a division of the county that is current
Zoning- a division within the county
some of these shape files are going to be very useful for the applying it to green spaces because some of the files fall under green spaces the wetlands, woodlands, watersheds, parks and other files will help seeingthedistrubution of green space at different levels within the county to see if there are any injustices occurring and others will have no application to my specific part of the project
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we have some amazing pictures of Northwest Delaware by Kim
our tour had a focus on a few green spaces like BLue Lime Stone Park, Delaware State Park and Smith Park and some potential environmental injustice like the quare and the water treatment place
all in all it was a neat expterience and had some fun
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A few terms that I think was relevant to define when dealing with environmental justice
Environmental Equity- An ideal of equal treatment and protection for various racial, ethnic, and income groups under environmental statutes, regulations, and practices applied in a manner that yields no substantial differential impacts relative
Environmental Justice – The right to a safe, healthy, productive, and sustainable environment for all, where “environment” is considered in its totality to include the ecological (biological), physical (natural and built), social, political, aesthetic, and economic environments.
Environmental Racism - “Racial discrimination in environmental policy-making, enforcement of regulations and laws, and targeting of communities of color for toxic waste disposal and siting of polluting industries
Environmental Classism – The results of and the process by which implementation of environmental policy creates intended or unintended consequences which have disproportionate impacts (adverse or beneficial) on lower income persons, populations, or communities
I was interested in the link between environmental justice and how the issues of climate change and human rights are related to the global community. Global awareness is growing as the result of globalization and expansion because not even ten years ago these issues were not even being addressed because these topics of human health and the environment in the terms of ecology and biology seemed unrelated. The articles called for collaboration because many of the same environmental injustice practices are happening all around the world and that through communication for example the Florida and Brazilian workers are dealing with the same issues could provide support. Issues that arise when trying to analyze ecological areas and including it into a measurement is the cost benefit approach for example the issue of the productivity and ecological value of mangroves. Mangroves are an endangered habitat because of the large populations of shrimps that it can support and the number of shrimp farms off the mangroves. However the shrimp farms are also destroying the ecological role of watershed management, purification and flooding especially in the areas of the Asian pacific and the west cost of South America. One issue brought up was that in most of the cases issues of environmental injustice can apply local knowledge to help elevate the economic stress of production on the environment and still maintain respect for the environment and culture and supply alternative to the current problems.
