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    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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    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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