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Environmental studies (EVS or EVST) is a multidisciplinary academic field which systematically studies
See also human interaction with the environment. Environmental studies connects principles from the physical
References sciences, commerce/economics, the humanities,[1] and social sciences[2] to address complex
contemporary environmental issues. It is a broad field of study that includes the natural environment, the
Further reading
built environment, and the relationship between them. The field encompasses study in basic principles of
External links ecology and environmental science, as well as associated subjects such as ethics, geography,
Environment
Human impact (on the climate) · Issues ·
anthropology, public policy (environmental policy), education, political science (environmental politics),
Environmentalism (Stewardship) ·
urban planning, law, economics, philosophy, sociology and social justice, planning, pollution control and Environmental studies
natural resource management.[3] There are many Environmental Studies degree programs, including a
Environment in
Master's degree and a Bachelor's degree. Environmental Studies degree programs provide a wide range of Consulting · Education · Engineering ·
skills and analytical tools needed to face the environmental issues of our world head on. Students in Humanities · Law · Policy · Science ·
Environmental Studies gain the intellectual and methodological tools to understand and address the crucial Social science

environmental issues of our time and the impact of individuals, society, and the planet. Environmental Article index · Lists · Portal
education's main goal is to instill in all members of society a pro-environmental thinking and attitude. This
Category · Commons
will help to create environmental ethics and raise people's awareness of the importance of environmental
· ·
protection and biodiversity.[4]

History [ edit ]

The New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University established a BS in environmental studies degree in the 1950s, awarding its first degree
in 1956.[5] Middlebury College established the major there in 1965.[6]

The Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) was established in 1993 "to further research and teaching activities in areas related to
environmental studies in Canada".[7] ESAC was officially integrated in 1994, and the first convention for ESAC was held at the Learned Societies
Conference in Calgary the same year.[8] ESAC's magazine, A\J: Alternatives Journal was first published by Robert A. Paehlke on 4 July 1971.[9][10]

In 2008, The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) was founded as the first professional association in the interdisciplinary field of
environmental studies in the United States. The AESS is also the publisher for the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (JESS), which aims to
allow researchers in various disciplinarians related to environmental sciences to have base for researchers to use and publish new information related to
environmental studies.[11] In 2010, the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) agreed to advise and support the association. In March
2011, The association's scholarly journal, the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (JESS), commenced publication.[12][13]

Environmental Studies in U.S. Universities

In the United States, many high school students are able to take environmental science as a college-level course.[14] Over 500 colleges and universities
in the United States offer environmental studies as a degree.[15] The University of California, Berkeley has awarded the most degrees in environmental
studies for U.S. universities, with 409 degrees awarded in 2019. The universities in the United States that have the highest percentage of degrees
awarded is Antioch University-New England, where nearly 35% of degrees awarded in 2019 were in environmental studies.

Education [ edit ]

Worldwide, programs in environmental studies may be offered through colleges of liberal arts, life science, social
science or agriculture. Students of environmental studies use what they learn from the sciences, social sciences,
and humanities to better understand environmental problems and potentially offer solutions to them. Students
look at how we interact with the natural world and come up with ideas to prevent its destruction.[16]

In the 1960s, the word "environment" became one of the most commonly used in educational discourse in the
United Kingdom. Educationists were becoming increasingly worried about the influence of the environment on
The Porter School of Environmental
children as well as the school's usage of the environment. The attempt to define the field of environmental Studies Building – Tel Aviv University
studies has resulted in a discussion over its role in the curriculum. The use of the environment is one of the
teaching approaches used in today's schools to carry on the legacy of educational philosophy known as
'Progressive education' or 'New education' in the first part of the twentieth century. The primary goal of environmental studies is to assist children in
understanding the processes that influence their surroundings so that they do not stay a passive, and often befuddled, observer of the environment, but
rather become knowledgeable active mediators of it. The study of the environment can be considered to offer unique chances for the development and
exercise of the general cognitive skills that Piaget's work has made educators aware of. Environmental studies are increasingly being viewed as a long-
term preparation for higher environmental studies such as Sociology, Archaeology, or Historical Geography.[17]

See also [ edit ]

Main article: Outline of environmental studies

Conservation Commons Environmental sociology – Study of interactions between societies and

Environmental ethics – Part of environmental philosophy their natural environments
Environmental communication – Type of communication Environmental geography – Branch of geography
Environmental education – Branch of pedagogy List of environmental degrees – Overview of and topical guide to
Environmental racism – Environmental injustice that occurs within a environmental studies
racialized context List of environmental journals
Environmental social science Sustainable development – Mode of human development

References [ edit ]

1. ^ Keywords for environmental studies . Adamson, Joni, 1958-, Gleason, 8. ^ "A Brief History of ESAC" . ESAC. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
William A., 1961-, Pellow, David N., 1969-. New York. 2016. ISBN 978-0- 9. ^ Alternatives Archived 6 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine
8147-6074-1. OCLC 933297292 . 10. ^ "The Alternatives Story" Archived 6 January 2012 at the Wayback
2. ^ Milstein, T. & Castro-Sotomayor, J. (2020). Routledge Handbook of Machine
Ecocultural Identity. London, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/978135 11. ^ "AESS Publications" . AESSOnline.org. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
1068840 Archived 30 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine 12. ^ "Association for Environmental Studies & Sciences AESSonline.org" .
3. ^ National Center for Education Statistics. Classification of Instructional AESSOnline.org. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved
Programs (CIP 2000)- (03) NATURAL RESOURCES AND 29 April 2018.
CONSERVATION Archived 12 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine. 13. ^ "The History and Development of AESS" . Association for Environmental
Institute of Education Sciences, United States Department of Education. Studies and Sciences. Archived from the original on 6 November 2016.
[Retrieved 29 January 2010] 14. ^ "AP Environmental Science" . Collegeboard. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
4. ^ Roy, Gitanjali Sinha (30 December 2021). "The Last Super Power" . 15. ^ "Major: Environmental Studies" . Collegeboard. Retrieved 4 October
Journal of Japanese Studies: Exploring Multidisciplinarity. 1. 2018.
doi:10.55156/jjsem.dec2132 . S2CID 246371187 .
16. ^ "Environmental Studies College Degree Programs | The College Board" .
5. ^ "About Environmental Studies at ESF," Archived 1 December 2017 at bigfuture.collegeboard.org. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
the Wayback Machine SUNY-ESF website. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
17. ^ Smiley, Timothy (1 September 1970). "Form and Content in Logic" .
6. ^ "Environmental Studies – Middlebury" . middlebury.edu. Archived from Journal of Symbolic Logic. 35 (3): 460–462. doi:10.2307/2270721 .
the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2018. ISSN 0022-4812 . JSTOR 2270721 .
7. ^ "A Brief History of ESAC" . Archived from the original on 28 January
2012. Retrieved 12 March 2012. "A Brief History of ESAC". Retrieved 12
March 2012.

Further reading [ edit ]

Emmett, Rob, and Frank Zelko (eds.), "Minding the Gap: Working Across Disciplines in Environmental Studies ", RCC Perspectives 2014, no. 2.
doi.org/10.5282/rcc/6313.

External links [ edit ]

Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences

Environmental Studies Association of Canada
Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences

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