EnviSCi

ENVIRONMENT (BIOPHYSICAL)

The biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism, or population, and includes particularly the factors that have an influence in their survival, development and evolution.

Biotic

living component of a community

Abiotic

nonliving factors that affect living organisms

SCIENCE

The systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained.

ENGINEERING

The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

A discipline that integrates different fields of sciences to understand the environment.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

An interdisciplinary area of study that includes both applied and theoretical aspect of human impact on the world.

ECOLOGY

the study of living things, nonliving things, the environment and their interactions

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

The application of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment

Hunter - Gatherers

small groups of people that migrated from place to place

obtained food by collecting plants or hunting

Agricultural Revolution

also called the Neolithic Revolution, it is the shift to agriculture from hunting and gathering

Industrial Revolution

shifted societies from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy where products were no longer made solely by hand but by machines

First Industrial Revolution

Coal in 1765

Second Industrial Revolution

Gas in 1870

Third Industrial Revolution

Electronics and Nuclear in 1969

Fourth Industrial Revolution

Internet and Renewable Energy in 2000

Industrial Revolution

Much of environmental science and engineering is concerned with the problem associated with the ________

Sanitary Engineering

emerged as a separate engineering field within civil engineering in the mid 1800's as the importance of drinking water treatment and wastewater treatment became recognized.

Sanitary Engineering

it is the precursor of the present day field of environmental engineering, which had an emphasis on water supply, water treatment, and wastewater collection and treatment for many years.

Environmental Engineering

Public concern about environmental quality issues like air pollution and water pollution emerged in the middle third of the 20th century, leading to development of ________ as a separate discipline.

Water treatment

treating water from natural sources for domestic and industrial purposes

Wastewater treatment

preventing negative environmental impacts of the discharged water and handle residuals generated, such as biosolids that can be used as fertilizer

Air quality

designing processes to prevent industrial emissions of air pollutants

Surface water quality

preventing degradation of the quality of water in rivers and lakes, so that natural populations of aquatic life.

Solid waste

recycling, designing landfill as well as destruction processes

Hazardous Waste Management

In the United Sutes, this is govern by two laws namely; RCRA and CERCLA.

RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)

treatment of currently generated hazardous industrial wastes

CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act)

clean up of past contaminated sites

Industrial Waste Minimization/Treatment

change of input materials, recovery of byproducts, improved housekeeping, recycling processes and/or change in technology

Health and Safety

creating balance between communities and natural resources

Permitting

ensuring that all projects and activties of a company are compliant to environmental regulations

Lithosphere

Earth’s outer layer consisting of the soil rocks

Oceanic and Continental

Two type of Lithosphere

Hydrosphere

includes all types of water bodies found on Earth