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ENV222H1 : study guide

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29 Apr 2011
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School of Environment
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ENV222H1
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Mairi Mac Donald

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Title/ author date summary interdisciplinary env studies /michael soule and daniel. Press 1988 environmental studies suffers from universalism it includes so much that it doesn"t really include anything; the subject matter as environment as problem seems to be holistic. Over the past 100 years, environmentalism has gone from a local problem to expansion spatially as a global problem; expansion in terms of human activity to almost all spheres of human activity. Deep ecology naess ecocentric and radical view. 19th c. individual creature - concern for domestic animals only one animal moral concern for nature limited to animal rights; domestic animal, need. 1962 concern for resource depletion, eg forests, wildlife pollution as a human health concern, in cities, eg sewage. New concern for the loss of resources; resources might be depleted and actions to save them. Silent spring; toxic chemicals as problem moral concern for nature expands to ecosystems.

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Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with their environment. Thus, a central question in ecology concerns how organisms respond to environmental variation. The flip side of this question is to ask whether the variation in characteristics of organisms is the result of variation in features of the environment. This variation can occur in space or through time.

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