Environmental Studies

UNIT VI

Social Issues and the Environment

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After reading the chapter, students will be able to:

• Define social issues and their impact on the environment.
• Explain the processes needed to transit from unsustainable to sustainable development.
• Describe urban problems related to energy.
• Define water conservation and describe methods such as rain water harvesting and watershed management.
• Explain resettlement and rehabilitation of people and outline the accompanying problems and concerns, with case studies.
• Define environmental ethics, and explain the issues and possible solutions.
• Define climatic changes, global warming, acid rain, ozone layer depletion, nuclear accidents and holocausts.
• Extrapolate on these terms with appropriate ...