[ENVS 195] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 21 pages long Study Guide!

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS195
• Professor: Erin Joakim

Document Summary

Including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere and biosphere. Nature: a social creation, physical environment that includes humans: nature is also a reflection of. Society: sum of inventions, institutions, and relationships created and reproduced by human beings across particular places and times. Nature is both a physical realm and a social creation. If nature is a social creation, it is important to: understand the social ideas of nature present in society today, the history of those ideas. Humans and nature both created by god, but man is created in god(cid:859)s i(cid:373)age so (cid:373)a(cid:374) is separate from nature. Nature is an entity to be dominated by humans. Adam and eve, garden of eden and dominion over plants and animals. Humans should be stewards of caretakers of the environment. Co(cid:374)(cid:272)er(cid:374)s for justi(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d (cid:858)a(cid:272)ti(cid:374)g out(cid:859) faith. Belief that natural phenomena possess a spirit or consciousness. Resources: specific components of the environment, such as forests, wildlife, oceans, rivers and lakes, minerals and petroleum.