I am currently doing a research report on the science of e-waste. What kind of a textbook would help me out best - environmental science or ecology? I am looking for a book that explains HOW chemicals like mercury, lead, cadmium, along with plastics, affect the environment.
2007-02-20 15:53:31 · 4 answers · asked by tudn127 1 in Environment
Environmental science is the study of the interactions among the physical, chemical and biological components of the environment; with a focus on pollution and degradation of the environment related to human activities; and the impact on biodiversity and sustainability from local and global development.
The subdiscipline of biology that concentrates on the relationships between organisms and their environments; it is also called environmental biology. Ecology is concerned with patterns of distribution (where organisms occur) and with patterns of abundance (how many organisms occur) in space and time.
2007-02-20 21:17:43 · answer #1 · answered by neumor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ecology is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how the distribution and abundance are affected by interactions between the organisms and their environment. The environment of an organism includes both physical properties, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors such as insolation (sunlight), climate, and geology, and biotic factors, which are other organisms that share its habitat. Environmental science is the study of physical or virtual environment of objects; and in Nature, it is the study of interactions among physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment. It is an interdisciplinary science overlapping the categories in Natural sciences, Engineering sciences and Social sciences. In nature, Environmental science focuses on pollution and degradation of the environment related to human activities and their impact on biodiversity and sustainability. As an interdisciplinary field, environmental science also applies knowledge from economics, law and social sciences. It can be applied to cyberspace environment also.
2016-05-24 00:55:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Environmental science is to make money , ecologic science is for save the planete.
Business men and dreamers don't look in the same direction.
That why we need invente an environmental ecology or an ecology of environnement.
like built a caterpillar to dig a canal from rock mountains to make green all USA
2007-02-24 07:16:28 · answer #3 · answered by pingouin 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
that would be environmental science
Ecology refers to the relationship between living organisms and how they relate to non-living things. Environmental science on the other hand, relates to man and how he relates to his surroundings. i.e. it is more anthropocentric
2007-02-20 16:05:56 · answer #4 · answered by Nades 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋