EESA01H3 Lecture Notes - Cultural Revolution, Demographic Transition, Big Country
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Search for peer reviewed scientific info, summarize and cite properly. Scientific method, how to come up with the questions etc. Interdisciplinary, does not have its own foundation on anything, it takes from multiple disiplines. Answers questions across boundaries: eg hydrology, geochemistry, toxicology, biology, social sciences, science for people who are a jack of all trades. Ask how do things in environment affect us and how do the things we do to the environment affect everything else. Environmental scientists are held to be unbiased in what they are doing, cannot going into an experiment hoping for something to occur: need to be objective. That does not mean that environmental scientists can"t be environmentalists, just that they are not necessarily so. How unregulated resource use occurs in environment and what consequences it can have. Theory that unregulated exploitation of any resource leads to its depletion: relatively rapid.