Environmental Science

○ Environment

Circumstances and conditions that surround an organism or group of organisms

Social and cultural conditions that affect an individual or community.

Environmental Science= Is the systematic study of our environment and our place in it, using the scientific method.

• Highly interdisciplinary (bio, geo, chem, soc, etc.)
• Inclusive/holistic (environmental scientists incorporate knowledge of social organization, politics, humanities, culture)
• Mission-oriented (generally applied in a problem-solving sense)

Science as a way of knowing

• Process of producing knowledge
• Assumes the world is knowable through empirical study and logical analysis
  
• Reduced tendency to rely on emotional reactions and unexamined assuptions