Old Westbury
223 Store Hill Rd Old Westbury, NY 11568-0210
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The following is fulfilled by this course:
- Natural Sciences (and Scientific Reasoning)
Old Westbury has listed this a core course in the following categories:
- Introduction to Economics
- Introduction to Environmental Science
- Physical Environment/Physical Geography
The core course can be applied to following SUNY Transfer Paths:
BS 2490
Environmental Science
The focus of this lecture course is on the interactions of humans with their environment. Human impact on the world's ecosystems is emphasized. The theme stressed throughout this course is that every system involving life is dependent upon maintaining balances between nutrient gains and losses, between energy inflows and outflows, and between births and deaths winthin populations. Against this background, various aspects of the human system, such as our use of soils, our disposal of wastes, our use of resources, land, energy, and our population are shown to be out of balance. The consequences of these imbalances are discussed in relation to our political and economic system.