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The International Environmental Design Contest (IEDC) is a competition hosted by the WERC Consortium and The Institute for Energy & The Environment at New Mexico State University. [1] It is an annual event in which student teams prepare written, oral, poster, and bench-scale model presentations in response to design tasks.
Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health. To effectively control factors that may affect health, the requirements that must be met to create a healthy environment must be determined. [ 1 ]
Christian views on environmentalism vary greatly amongst different Christians and Christian denominations.. Green Christianity is a broad field that encompasses Christian theological reflection on nature, liturgy, and spiritual practices centered on environmental issues, as well as Christian-based activism in the environmental movement.
Hygiene is a practice [3] related to lifestyle, cleanliness, health, and medicine.In medicine and everyday life, hygiene practices are preventive measures that reduce the incidence and spread of germs leading to disease.
Environmental protection, or environment protection, is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, groups and governments. [1] Its objectives are to conserve natural resources and the existing natural environment and, where it is possible, to repair damage and reverse trends. [2]
Ecosystem health is an example of normative science, and "using normative science in policy deliberations is stealth advocacy." "Normative science is a corruption of science and should not be tolerated in the scientific community — without exception." [60] Health is a metaphor, not a property of an ecosystem. Health is an abstraction.
Buddhist monks in Cambodia on a march in the Areng Valley in support of environmental conservation.. Religion and environmentalism is an emerging interdisciplinary subfield in the academic disciplines of religious studies, religious ethics, the sociology of religion, and theology amongst others, with environmentalism and ecological principles as a primary focus.
Ecospirituality has been influenced by the ideas of deep ecology, [8] [9] which is characterized by "recognition of the inherent value of all living beings and the use of this view in shaping environmental policies" [10] Similarly to ecopsychology, it refers to the connections between the science of ecology and the study of psychology.