Introduction of Environmental Science

To help us understand pressing problems of resource supply, ecosystem stability, and sustainable living

• environmental science

• science and technology

• social science

• business science

composed of the natural world and the “built” world

• Habitat

• Environment

• Surroundings

• Places

Increase in global average temperatures due to natural and anthropological activities and severe droughts and heat waves, population decline in species, rising sea levels

• Physical Change

• Pollution

• Climate Change

• Hazards

Worsening air quality, toxic haze, air pollutants

• Air quality

• Energy Resources

• Lack of access to safe drinking water

• Uneven distribution of food resources

Lack of access to safe drinking water

• Air quality

• Energy Resources

• Hunger

• Clean Water

Uneven distribution of food resources

• Air quality

• Energy Resources

• Hunger

• Clean Water

Renewable and non renewable energy sources

• Air quality

• Energy Resources

• Hunger

• Clean Water

Habitat destruction, overexploitation, pollution, introduction of foreign species

• Air quality

• Biodiversity Loss

• Hunger

• Clean Water

All are examples of Interventions and Signs of Hope except;

• Protection of Marine Resources

• Conservation of Forests and Nature Preserves

• Information and Education

• Biohazards

a process for producing empirical knowledge by observing natural phenomena

• Culinary

• Mathematics

• Social Science

• Science