Environmental studies is the academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment. It is a broad interdisciplinary field of study that includes the natural environment, built environment, and the sets of relationships between them. While distinct from ecology and environmental science, the discipline encompasses study in the basic principles of those two fields of learning as well as the associated subjects, such as: policy, politics, law, economics, sociology and other social aspects, planning, pollution control, natural resources, and the interactions of human beings and nature.[1]
Middlebury College became the first institution of higher education in the United States to offer an Environmental Studies major, establishing the major in 1965. [1]
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 08/05/2008]
See also
- Bachelor of Environmental Studies
- Brian Black
- Conservation Commons
- Environmental communication
- Environmental education
- List of environmental studies topics
- School of Environmental Studies
- Sustainable development
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