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UNDERSTANDING
OUR
ENVIRONMENT
JESSA SABADO
COURSE
OVERVIEW
• This course presents the connections and
relations between individual spheres of the
environment, namely natural science, engineering
and humanities and there covers the fields of
chemistry, biology, ecology, meteorology,
hydrology, economics, sociology and also
toxicology and health ecology.
QUIZZES 30%
ASSIGNMENTS/ACTIVITIES 30%
TOTAL 100%
60% PASSING
01
UNDERSTANDING
OUR
ENVIRONMENT
The Nature of
Environmental Science
Environment – (from the French environner: to
encircle or surround)
Gifford Pinchot
• First director of the Forest Service, 1905