Environmental Science-1

To study how the earth works, interaction and ways to deal with environmental problems.

Ethics, Ecology, Biology, Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Geology, Archaeology, Anthropology, Sociology, History, Political Science, Engineering Economics.

The earth itself

What we doing to control the natural capital

Is the natural resource already within earth.

resource replenished in days to serveral hundred years through natural processes example

Solar engery/ wind/ geothermal/ hydroelectricity

• 1. Life depends on solar energy
• 2. Biodiversity provides natural services
• 3. Chemical/ nutrient cycling means that there is little waste in nature

the ability of earths various systems including human cultural systems and economies to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely.

The highest rate of which a renewable and non-renewable resource can be used indefinitely w/o reducing its available supply.

degtradation of openly shared resource 

The amount of bilogically productive land & water needed to supply a person with renewable resource and to recycle the waste and pollution  produced by such resource  use.

• 1. Population growth
• 2. Unstainable resource use
• 3. Poverty
• 4. Excluding environmental cost from market prices

7 billion in 2011

Developed countries include those with high income developing countries include those to low income.