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  2. Environmental science - Wikipedia

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    Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, meteorology, mathematics and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geography, and atmospheric science) to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems.

  3. List of environmental research institutes - Wikipedia

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    Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology; European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment, Imperial College London; Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP), Imperial College London; Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS ...

  4. Ecology - Wikipedia

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    Ecology is an employed science of restoration, repairing disturbed sites through human intervention, in natural resource management, and in environmental impact assessments. Edward O. Wilson predicted in 1992 that the 21st century "will be the era of restoration in ecology". [ 166 ]

  5. Glossary of environmental science - Wikipedia

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    Silent Spring - environmental science book by Rachel Carson published in 1962 that inspired the environmental movement and later led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. simple living - a lifestyle individuals may pursue for a variety of motivations, such as spirituality, health, or ecology. Others may choose ...

  6. List of members of the National Academy of Sciences ...

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    Carnegie Institution for Science: 2015 William J. Bond: University of Cape Town: 2013 Frederick Bormann (d. 2012) Yale University: 1973 James H. Brown: University of New Mexico: 2005 John Cairns Jr. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: 1991 Stephen R. Carpenter: University of Wisconsin–Madison: 2001 Juan Carlos Castilla

  7. History of ecology - Wikipedia

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    Ecology is a new science and considered as an important branch of biological science, having only become prominent during the second half of the 20th century. [1] Ecological thought is derivative of established currents in philosophy, particularly from ethics and politics.

  8. Environmental studies - Wikipedia

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    Environmental studies (EVS or EVST) is a multidisciplinary academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment.Environmental studies connects principles from the physical sciences, commerce/economics, the humanities, [1] and social sciences [2] to address complex contemporary environmental issues.

  9. Ecosystem ecology - Wikipedia

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    Population, community, and physiological ecology provide many of the underlying biological mechanisms influencing ecosystems and the processes they maintain. Flowing of energy and cycling of matter at the ecosystem level are often examined in ecosystem ecology, but, as a whole, this science is defined more by subject matter than by scale.