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About This Course
Every day, real estate professionals play a key role in shaping decisions about where and how people live. Promoting sustainable communities and understanding the impact of environmental factors, particularly water, can add tremendous value to the properties and neighborhoods we represent.
In this course, you’ll explore critical water-related issues that affect real estate at local, national, and global levels. Topics include water usage trends, pollution, wetlands, flood management, coastal challenges, and water conservation strategies. You'll also examine historical environmental legislation and its long-term impact on our built environments.
Topics Covered
- Global and U.S. Water Use
- Global Population Growth and Statistics
- Environmental History and Legislation
- Natural Wetlands
- Oceans
- Floods
What You’ll Learn
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Analyze and put current global and U.S. water use in the context of water supply;
- Discuss the Ogallala aquifer depletion, irrigation efficiency, and the effects of irrigation subsidies on irrigation efficiency
- Evaluate global population growth in perspective
- Illustrate statistics involving proportion living near a coast and immigration to the U.S.
- Discuss physical properties of water, water distribution, and movement around the world
- Diagram the history of the environmental movement in the U.S. and the genesis of environmental legislation
- Illustrate point and non-point sources of water pollution
- Summarize water quality standards
- Discuss natural wetlands, their distribution, history, and ecological value
- Explain wetland protection
- Contrast constructed wetlands and their applications with natural wetlands; Relate wellhead protection programs with emphasis on source water assessments
- Summarize basic information about the world's oceans and their zonation
- Discuss the 2003 report of the Pew Oceans Commission on the state of U.S. oceans
- Recognize the variety of coastal and marine environmental problems that are accumulating
- Explain the ecological and economic importance of our coastal and marine environments
- Describe new ocean governance and a new ocean ethic, coastal zone management efforts, tsunamis, and tsunami hazard mitigation
- Discuss the topic of floods
- Explain impacts of watershed
- Summarize the National Flood Insurance Program Plan
- Identify water conservation strategies
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| Name: | Alabama Real Estate Commission |
| Phone: | 334-242-5544 |
| Fax: | 334-270-9118 |
| Website URL: | https://arec.alabama.gov/arec/default.aspx |
| Email Address: | arec@arec.alabama.gov |
| Address: | 1201 Carmichael Way |
| City: | Montgomery |
| State: | AL |
| Zip: | 36106-3674 |
