ENVIRSC 1B03 Lecture Notes - Groundwater Recharge, Soil Horizon, Soil Fertility

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Environmental science: introduction, what is the environment, how do we study environmental problems, evaluating environmental science, other discourses on the environment, environmental problems. Quote: science is an adventure of the human spirit. It is essentially an artistic enterprise, stimulated largely by curiosity, served largely by disciplined imagination, and based largely on faith in the reasonableness, order, and beauty of the universe. The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance born when i was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man. Rachel carson: naturalist, author, government scientist, 1907-1964, author of silent spring, influential in changing views towards the environment. Humans exist within the environment and our interactions with other parts. Study of how the natural world works, how humans affect their environment, and how the environment affects humans in return. Do experiments to collect data interpret data well tested and accepted. Well tests and accepted hypothesis becomes scientific theories.

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