Learning Outcomes

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

• Describe what the environment is, and some of its major components.
• Understand the process of scientific inquiry
• Define environmental science and environmental issues
• Understand why it is important to study environmental science and environmental issues
• Explain the concept of sustainability and its social, political, and cultural challenges
• Evaluate the main points of environmental ethics
• Describe the concept of environmental justice

Chapter Outline

• 1.1 The Earth, Humans, and the Environment
• 1.2 The Process of Science
• 1.3 Environment and Sustainability
• 1.4 Environmental Ethics
• 1.5 Environmental Justice & Indigenous Rights
• 1.6 Chapter Resources – Environmental Science

Attribution

“Chapter 1: Environmental Science” by Alexandra Geddes is licensed under CC BY 4.0