Posted: February 4th, 2016

Environmental geology is considered a broad applications science, what other areas of study would be included under its umbrella?

What is environmental geology?  What are its uses?

Environmental geology is considered a broad applications science, what other areas of study would be included under its umbrella?

What are the 5 concepts that will be covered in this course?

Why is population growth the number one environmental problem in the world?

What is in-put/out-put analysis? What is exponential growth?

What is average residence time? How is it applied?

How can the principle of uniformitarianism be applied to environmental geology?

What is the Gaia hypothesis? Is the Gaia Hypothesis science? How could we test the main parts?  Which would be hard to test? Why?

Is sustainability the solution to population growth?  How?

What is the precautionary principle and why is it important?