ENV100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Environmentalism, Overconsumption, Natural Experiment

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

Document Summary

Environment is more than just water, land, and air; it is everything around us which we interact with. Biotic: living things: animals, plants, trees, forests, soil etc. Abiotic: non-living things: clouds, rocks, oceans etc. Our built environment: roads, buildings, schools etc. Social relationships and institutions: government, religion, political, economical, culture. From an old french verb environer which means to form a circle . Be careful when defining the environment : environment is a legal entity since it has legal standings, environmental policies/practices need to be defined by various organizations (ex: Country ecuador has legal standings to the environment ) Environmental science: explores the connection between humans and the physical and biological world. It is the study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment: how natural resources and process support life, how the natural world works, how humans effect the environment.