Environmental studies
Environmental studies is the interdisciplinary academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment. It is a broad field of study that includes also the natural environment, built environment, and the sets of relationships between them. While distinct from ecology and environmental science, the field encompasses study in the basic principles of those two fields of learning as well as the associated subjects, such as: ethics, policy, politics, law, economics, philosophy, sociology and other social aspects, planning, pollution control, natural resources, and the interactions of human beings and nature.[1]
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[edit] History
Middlebury College became the first institution of higher education in the United States to offer an Environmental Studies major, establishing the major in 1965.[2]
The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) was founded in 2008 as the first American professional association in the interdisciplinary field of environmental studies. An academic journal is scheduled to begin publication in 2011.[3]
[edit] See also
- Bachelor of Environmental Studies
- Brian Black
- Conservation Commons
- Environmental communication
- Environmental education
- Environmental sociology
- List of environmental studies topics
- School of Environmental Studies
- Sustainable development
[edit] External link
Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences
[edit] References
- ^ National Center for Education Statistics. Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP 2000)- (03) NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION. Institute of Education Sciences, United States Department of Education. [Accessed 29 January 2010]
- ^ http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ump/majors/es
- ^ Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences
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