What is environmental studies? It’s not environmental science, nor is it sustainability. It IS a combination of arts, social science, and science (social, political, economic, health and ecological), and how these contribute to environmental issues and solutions.
Why study it? Because it brings together many different disciplines, environmental studies helps us tackle some of the world’s most important and complex problems, such as resource use, energy consumption and food security. Our species depends on it!
Planet formation/rock cycle
Climate and weather cycles
Biological cycles – population, dynamics and nutrients
Urban systems and cycles
Biotic and geologic resources and biodiversity
Soil and water resources
Forms of energy
Use of energy
Population basics
Populations over time and space
Populations of the Global South
Environmental Justice
Challenges we face as a species - staying alive
Consequences of resource use (pollution, depletion, waste, degradation)