ENV 1101 Final: Environment Final.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENV 1101
• Professor: shard

Document Summary

Environment: sum of our total surroundings, including all of the living and non-living things with which we interact. The environment is everything that isn"t me einstein. Environmental science: study of how the natural world works and how humans and the environment interact. Resource management: strategic decision making and planning aimed at balancing the use of a resource with its protection and preservation: renewable resources: replenished over a short period of time. Examples: sunlight, wave energy and wind energy: nonrenewable resources: finite supply and are able to be depleted because they form much slower than we use them. Human population growth: stone age period: early humans gained control of fire and began to shape tools, agricultural revolution: from hunter gatherers to a settled, agricultural way of life. Industrial revolution: urban society"s powered by fossil fuels: medical tech revolution: advances in medicine and sanitation.