Chapter 15Environmental Protection

It is in man’s heart that the life of nature’s spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Relevance, Rationale, and Context

Traditionally, environment referred to the surrounding in which a phenomenon existed or an event took place. Over time, the concept has broadened considerably and now includes numerous aspects of social, technical, economic, political, and psychological arrangements, activities, and outcomes. Environment refers principally to ecological conditions, but is closely ...

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