Environmental studies
Environmental studies is the interdisciplinary academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment. It is a broad field of study that includes also the natural environment, built environment, and the sets of relationships between them. The field encompasses study in basic principles of ecology and environmental science, as well as associated subjects such as ethics, policy, politics, law, economics, philosophy, environmental sociology and environmental justice, planning, pollution control and natural resource management.[1]
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[edit] History
Middlebury College became the first institution of higher education in the United States to offer an Environmental Studies major, establishing the major in 1965.[2]
The Environmental Studies Association of Canada was established in 1993 "to further research and teaching activities in areas related to environmental studies in Canada".[3]
The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) was founded in 2008 as the first professional association in the interdisciplinary field of environmental studies in the United States. An academic journal began publication in 2011.[4]
[edit] Related journals
Among the key scholarly journals in this field are:
- Ecological Economics
- Ecology and Society
- Energy Policy
- Environment and Urbanization
- Global Environmental Change
- Global Environmental Politics
- Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
- Nature and Culture
[edit] See also
- Bachelor of Environmental Studies
- Brian Black
- Conservation Commons
- Environmental communication
- Environmental education
- Environmental sociology
- List of environmental studies topics
- School of Environmental Studies
- Sustainable development
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[edit] References
- ^ National Center for Education Statistics. Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP 2000)- (03) NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION. Institute of Education Sciences, United States Department of Education. [Accessed 29 January 2010]
- ^ http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ump/majors/es
- ^ http://www.esac.ca/about/a-brief-history-of-esac/ "A Brief History of ESAC". Accessed March 12, 2012.
- ^ Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences
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