Lesson 2 Environmental Science PDF

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ===================== - - - - - i. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ECOLOGY ------------------------------------ - - - - - - ii.ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLES --------------------------- - - - ### 7 ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLES +--------------------------...

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ===================== - - - - - i. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ECOLOGY ------------------------------------ - - - - - - ii.ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLES --------------------------- - - - ### 7 ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLES +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | THEME | ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLE | +===================================+===================================+ | Interdependence and | Everything is connected to | | interconnectedness | everything else | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Change and Material Cycles | Everything in nature changes. | | | | | | Everything in nature has to go | | | somewhere | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Law of Limits and Population | The environment has carrying | | Dynamics | capacity. | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Diversity and Stability | All forms of life are important | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Balance of nature and stewardship | Nature knows best | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Finiteness of resources | Ours is a finite Earth. | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ ### INTERDEPENDENCE AND INTERCONNECTEDNESS - - - - - ### CHANGE AND MATERIAL CYCLES - - - - - ### LAW OF LIMITS AND POPULATION DYNAMICS - ### DIVERSity AND STABILITY - - ### BALANCE OF NATURE AND STEWARDSHIP - - ### FINITENESS OF RESOURCES - - III. ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS ------------------------- - - - - - - - - - #### 3 ETHICAL PRINCIPLES - - - - - - IV. ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS ----------------------------------------- - ### 6 ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS - - - - - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - IV. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND GOVERNANCE ---------------------------------------- **ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE** = is defined **[as fair treatment]**, meaning that ["no group of people, including racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic groups should bear a disproportionate share of the negative environmental] consequences resulting from industrial, municipal and commercial operations or the execution of national and local policies." Environmental justice is also interchangeably referred to as **"environmental equity",** defined as the [equal protection against environmental hazards] of all individuals, groups or communities regardless of race, ethnicity, or economic status. The end goal of environmental justice is [fairness and speaks of the impartiality] [that should guide the application of laws] designed to protect the health of human beings and the productivity of ecological systems on which all human activity, economic activity included, depends. The following are relevant principles in the application of environmental justice: - -  - - - - - - -