Editorial - (2021) Volume 9, Issue 4
Received: 08-Apr-2021
Published:
22-Apr-2021
Citation: Othman Salim Hussein Alfleesy. "Environmental
Science - An Over Review." J Phylogenetics Evol Biol 9 (2021): e206.
Copyright: © 2021 Othman Salim Hussein Alfleesy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical, biological and knowledge sciences (including ecology, biology, physics, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physiography , and atmospheric science) to the study of the environment, and therefore the solution of environmental problems. ecology emerged from the fields of explanation and medicine during the Enlightenment.[1] Today it provides an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems
Abstract
Environmental studies incorporates more of the social sciences for understanding human relationships, perceptions and policies towards the environment. Environmental engineering focuses on design and technology for improving environmental quality in every aspect. Environmental scientists study subjects just like the understanding of earth processes, evaluating energy systems, pollution control and mitigation, natural resources management, and therefore the effects of worldwide global climate change. Environmental issues nearly always include an interaction of physical, chemical, and biological processes. Environmental scientists bring a systems approach to the analysis of environmental problems. Key elements of an efficient environmental scientist include the power to relate space, and time relationships also as quantitative chemical analysis.
Keywords: Environmental study • Resources • Chemical analysis
Introduction
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical, biological and knowledge sciences (including ecology, biology, physics, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physiography , and atmospheric science) to the study of the environment, and therefore the solution of environmental problems. ecology emerged from the fields of explanation and medicine during the Enlightenment. Today it provides an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems.
Environmental science came alive as a substantive, active field of scientific investigation within the 1960s and 1970s driven by (a) the necessity for a multi-disciplinary approach to research complex environmental problems, (b) the arrival of substantive environmental laws requiring specific environmental protocols of investigation and (c) the growing public awareness of a requirement for action in addressing environmental problems. Events that spurred this development included the publication of Rachel Carson's landmark environmental book Silent Spring alongside major environmental issues becoming very public, like the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, and therefore the Cuyahoga River of Cleveland, Ohio, "catching fire" (also in 1969), and helped increase the visibility of environmental issues and make this new field of study.
Mating strategies and tactics
Atmospheric sciences specialize in the Earth's atmosphere, with a stress upon its interrelation to other systems. Atmospheric sciences can include studies of meteorology, greenhouse emission phenomena, atmospheric dispersion modeling of airborne contaminants, sound propagation phenomena associated with sound pollution , and even light pollution.
Taking the instance of the worldwide warming phenomena, physicists create computer models of atmospheric circulation and infrared transmission, chemists examine the inventory of atmospheric chemicals and their reactions, biologists analyze the plant and animal contributions to CO2 fluxes, and specialists like meteorologists and oceanographers add additional breadth in understanding the atmospheric dynamics.
Sensory bias
As defined by the Ecological Society of America, "Ecology is that the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and therefore their physical environment; it seeks to know the vital connections between plants and animals and the world around them." Ecologists might investigate the connection between a population of organisms and a few physical characteristic of their environment, like concentration of a chemical; or they could investigate the interaction between two populations of various organisms through some symbiotic or competitive relationship. for instance, an interdisciplinary analysis of an ecological system which is being impacted by one or more stressors might include several related ecology fields. In an estuarine setting where a proposed industrial development could impact certain species by water and pollution, biologists would describe the flora and fauna, chemists would analyze the transport of water pollutants to the marsh, physicists would calculate pollution emissions and geologists would assist in understanding the marsh soils and bay muds.
Journal of Phylogenetics & Evolutionary Biology received 911 citations as per Google Scholar report