Environmental Science 3300F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Capital, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere
12 Dec 2017
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What is environmental science: an interdisciplinary study that uses info from physical science and social science, how the earth works, how we interact with the earth, how to deal with environmental problems. What is the environment: combination of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere and biosphere in which humans, other living species and non-animate phenomena exist, everything that affects a living organism, resources are components of the environment. Something we need or want which is obtained from the environment: anthropocentric view, value is defines relative to human interests, wants and needs, something is only considered a resource if it has importance to humans, ex. An insect being killed vs. a large animal being killed: ecocentric/biocentric view, values aspects of the environment simply because they exist, ex. A grizzly bear: we do(cid:374)"t get a(cid:374)(cid:455) be(cid:374)efit fro(cid:373) the(cid:373) but the(cid:455) still e(cid:454)ist. Resource classifications: 3 classifications of material resources, perpetual - renewed continuously on human time scale, ex.
