Issues Affecting Study of Environment

Issues that will affect Study of Environment in the Future1.Population and Urbanization (increasing needs forinfrastructures and utilities and better quality of life)The current global population is expected to increase by 40million a year or reach by 10 billion by this centuryIt is expected...

Urgency to Act and the IPAT

Urgency to Act —   “Spaceshipearth carrying capacity to sustain life will be soon exceeded” —  Theworlds population exceeds 6 billion, and 80 million people are added each year.Resource consumption per capita also is in the rise. For example, over 25percent of the possible terrestrial...

Ecological Footprint

Dr. William Rees: Ecological FootprintEvery individual, process, and activity has an impact on theearth via (1) resource use, (2) generation of waste and (3) use of serviceprovided by nature. These inputs can be converted into biologically productivearea, on a per hectare basis. Ecological footprint...

Faces of Safety and Environmental Engineering

Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964) first modern “eco-feminist” who sparked the environmentalmovement in the United StatesAmerican biologist who wrote Silent Spring (1962);  book’s title suggested a time when birdpopulations are greatly reduced as a result of pesticides bio-accumulation andcould...

Environmental Engineering

Environmental ScienceEnvironmental Science is that branch of knowledge thatinvolves the study of different components of the environment that interact andresult in such phenomena, which can be either beneficial or harmful for theenvironment and the beings dependent on it for their sustenance.Defined...