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Engg 515: Intro to Environmental Science

Environmental science is a multidisciplinary field that studies the environment through integrating various sciences like ecology, physics, and geology. It provides a quantitative approach to analyzing environmental systems and problems. Environmental science emerged as an active area of study in the 1960s and 1970s due to growing public awareness of environmental issues, laws requiring environmental protocols, and the need for a cross-disciplinary view of complex problems.

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Engg 515: Intro to Environmental Science

Environmental science is a multidisciplinary field that studies the environment through integrating various sciences like ecology, physics, and geology. It provides a quantitative approach to analyzing environmental systems and problems. Environmental science emerged as an active area of study in the 1960s and 1970s due to growing public awareness of environmental issues, laws requiring environmental protocols, and the need for a cross-disciplinary view of complex problems.

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Introduction to Environmental Science

Environmental science is a multidisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences, (including but not limited to ecology, physics, chemistry, zoology, mineralogy, oceanology, limnology, soil science, geology, atmospheric science, and geography) to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems. Environmental science provides an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems Environmental science came alive as a substantive, active field of scientific investigation in the 196 s and 19! s driven by (a) the need for a multi"disciplinary approach to analyze comple# environmental problems, (b) the arrival of substantive environmental la$s requiring specific environmental protocols of investigation and (c) the gro$ing public a$areness of a need for action in addressing environmental problems. Environmental studies deals $ith every issue that affects an organism. %t is essentially a multidisciplinary approach that brings about an appreciation of our natural $orld and human impacts on its integrity. %t is an applied science as it&s see's practical ans$ers to ma'ing human civilization sustainable on the earth&s finite resources.

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