BESC 201 1st Edition Lecture 1 Outline of Last Lecture I Syllabus Day Outline of Current Lecture II Ecological Footprint III Easter Island IV Experiments V Ethics Current Lecture Science and Sustainability An Introduction to Environmental Science Ecological footprint describes environmental impact in terms of total area of biologically productive land and water to provide a person resources and to dispose of recycle that the person produces Can be scaled individually or to a population Measures Earth s productive surface a person uses when all direct indirect impacts are added Our actions with the environment will now be impactful on a global scale because of today s technology Environmental science mostly focuses on natural sciences and programs that include social sciences are called environmental studies Environmental science pursuit of knowledge These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Environmentalism social movement Environmental scientists keep research objective Easter Island is a symbolic warning of what can happen when a population uses too many resources Manipulative experiment the researcher chooses and manipulates independent variable strongest type of evidence because it reveals relationships between independent and dependent variables Can t be used for environmental scientists because of scale Use natural experiments instead compare how dependent variables are expressed in different situations to find trends Relativists ethicists who believe that ethics should vary with social context Universalists ethicists who believe that ethics are static across cultures Environmental ethics application of ethics to relationships between people and the environment
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