Learning Outcomes

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

• Define environmental science
• Understand why it is important to study environmental science
• Explain the concept of sustainability and its social, political, and cultural challenges
• Understand the process of scientific inquiry
• Compare inductive reasoning with deductive reasoning
• Describe the goals of basic science and applied science
• Evaluate the main points of environmental ethics
• Understand the Tragedy of the Commons and be able to apply this concept to other examples
• Describe the concept of environmental justice
• Think about bias in the media presentation of science

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 and Environmental Justice
• 1.5 Science in the Media
• 1.6 Chapter Resources – Environmental Science

Attribution

“Chapter 1: Environmental Science” by Alexandra Geddes is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Modified from the original by Joni Baumgarten.