ENV100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ecocentrism, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Sustainable Development

• School: UTM
• Department: Environment
• Course: ENV100Y5
• Professor: Monika Havelka

Document Summary

Has two components: abiotic: non-living, biotic: living. How we relate to environment: philosophical cultural religious/spiritual aesthetic emotional. Environmental science: the study of how natural world works and how humans and the environment interact. Environmental science explores interaction between humans and the physical and biological world: encompasses the biogeocheicmal physical system in which peopleand other ogranisms exist dynamic interrelationships among organisms (including people) and their surroundings (physical, chemical, biological, geological, social/cultural) Our understanding is greater than a sum of the parts . Environmental science is not the same as environmentalism: environmentalism: a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world (activism, environmental science: is the study and knowledge of the workings of environment. Science: systematic process for learning about the world and testing our understanding of it: the accumulated body of knowledge that arises from this dynamic process of observation, testing and discovery.