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Unit 1-Environmental Science Lecture

1. The document defines environmental science as a multidisciplinary field that studies how humans impact the natural world and seeks sustainable solutions. 2. It describes the scope of environmental science, explaining how human activities like industry, agriculture, and deforestation affect air, water, and other natural resources and can lead to their degradation if not managed sustainably. 3. The document emphasizes the importance of conserving renewable and non-renewable resources and compares them to a bank account that can be sustained if only the interest is used, not the total capital.

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Unit 1-Environmental Science Lecture

1. The document defines environmental science as a multidisciplinary field that studies how humans impact the natural world and seeks sustainable solutions. 2. It describes the scope of environmental science, explaining how human activities like industry, agriculture, and deforestation affect air, water, and other natural resources and can lead to their degradation if not managed sustainably. 3. The document emphasizes the importance of conserving renewable and non-renewable resources and compares them to a bank account that can be sustained if only the interest is used, not the total capital.

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UNIT 1 :

Multidisciplinary
Nature of
Environmental
Science
Semester 2
Syllabus:
• Definition, Scope and Importance of
Environmental Sciences.
Definition:

Environmental studies deals with Its components include


every issue that affects an organism. It
is essentially a multidisciplinary biology, geology,
approach that brings about an chemistry, physics,
appreciation of our natural world and engineering, sociology,
human impacts on its integrity. It is an health, anthropology,
applied science as it seeks practical economics, statistics,
answers to make human civilization
sustainable on the earth’s finite computers and
resources. philosophy.
Scope of Environmental
Science

• We breathe air, we use resources from which food is made


and we depend on the community of living plants and
animals which form a web of life.
• Our dependence on nature is so great that we cannot
continue to live without protecting the earth’s
environmental resources.
• Growing more food by using fertilizers and pesticides,
developing better strains of domestic animals and crops,
irrigating farmland through mega dams and developing
industry, led to rapid economic growth, the ill effects of
this type of development, led to environmental degradation.
Scope of Environmental
science
• The industrial development and intensive agriculture that
provides the goods for our increasingly consumer oriented
society uses up large amounts of natural resources such as
water, minerals, petroleum products, wood, etc.
• Nonrenewable resources, such as minerals and oil are
those which will be exhausted in the future if we continue
to extract these without a thought for subsequent
generations.
• Renewable resources, such as timber and water, are those
which can be used but can be regenerated by natural
processes such as regrowth or rainfall. But these too will
be depleted if we continue to use them faster than nature
can replace them.
Scope of Environmental
Science

• Loss of forest cover not only depletes the forest of its


resources, such as timber and other non-wood products, but
affect our water resources because an intact natural forest acts
like a sponge which holds water and releases it slowly.
• Deforestation leads to floods in the monsoon and dry rivers
once the rains are over. Such multiple effects on the
environment resulting from routine human activities must be
appreciated by each one of us, if it is to provide us with the
resources we need in the long-term.
• Our natural resources can be compared with money in a bank.
If we use it rapidly, the capital will be reduced to zero. On the
other hand, if we use only the interest, it can sustain us over
the longer term. This is called sustainable utilization or
development.
Importance of Environment Science
The importance’s of environmental studies are as follows:
1. To clarify modern environmental concept like how to
conserve biodiversity.
2. To know the more sustainable way of living.
3. To use natural resources more efficiently.
4. To know the behaviour of organism under natural conditions.
5. To know the interrelationship between organisms in
populations and communities.
6. To aware and educate people regarding environmental
issues and problems at local, national and international
levels.

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