Introduction to Environmental Science

1. Introduction to Environmental Science
October 15, 2019
Ahmed Aboulez
George Mason University, USA
Mansoura University, Egypt
aaboulez@mans.edu.eg

2. Warm up
1. How do define the term environment?
2. Are human a part of the environment?
3. What is environmental science?
4. How does environmental science connect
with other sciences?
5. How can science help us to understand and
solve the environmental problems?

3. What is the environmental science?

4. Environmental Science
Studyof
Interaction between
7 Billions Populations
HumanEarth
Pressure

5. Environmental Science
Interaction between
Natural
systems
Human
systems
Earth Life Populations
Interaction
Land/Water Energy Pollution Global Change
Practices

6. Environmental Science
Earth
Life
Populations
Land/Water
Energy
Pollution
Global Change
Practices
Sustainability

7. Why is this course important?

8. Save our planet
Why is this course important?
It is
funny
answer!
Why?
Because
planet or
earth is
going to
do fine?
So, how do
we do on
that planet,
it is
important
to us?

9. So, how do we do on that planet?

10. Save our society
Why is this course important?
It is better
to say to
save our
society.

11. If we look to this model

12. Climate
change Ocean
acidity
Ozone
depletion
Nitrogen cycle
Phosphorous
cycle
Biochemical
cycling
Fresh water
use
Deforestation
Biodiversity
loss
Particle
pollution
Chemical
pollution

13. Climate
change Ocean
acidity
Ozone
depletion
Nitrogen cycle
Phosphorous
cycle
Biochemical
cycling
Fresh water
use
Deforestation
Biodiversity
loss
Particle
pollution
Chemical
pollution

17. Sustainability

18. SustainabilityLife Support
Society
Economy

19. Environmental
Science

21. Environmental
Science Practices

22. Investigations

23. Investigations

24. Case Study

25. Case Study

26. Warm up
1. What was one fact you learned today?
2. What was the most interested thing
about today’s class?
3. How can you apply or use the
information that you learned today?

27. Warm up
1. What was one fact you learned today?
2. What was the most interested thing
about today’s class?
3. How can you apply or use the
information that you learned today?

28. Questions
1. What was one fact you learned today?
2. What was the most interested thing
about today’s class?
3. How can you apply or use the
information that you learned today?

29. Thank you