Science Man and His Environment

(Science, Man, and His Environment)

Introduction
Environmental Science (formerly called Science, Man, and His Environment) is a first year, general education course in environmental science taught at Assumption University of Thailand. These pages contain material to accompany the course and other material of interest to students.

Note that these pages could also be used as an introductory course for environmental science. Some individual sections could also be used in an advanced course.

Course Notes
These contain the lecture notes from Ajahn John Stampe. They also include activities and resources related to those lectures.


 * What is Environment?
 * Population
 * Energy Flow in Ecosystems
 * Ecology
 * Biogeochemical Cycles
 * Biodiversity
 * Energy
 * Air Quality
 * Global Warming
 * Water Quantity
 * Water Quality
 * Solid Waste

These two sections are from the former curriculum:
 * Scientific Method
 * Matter and Energy

Special Topic Pages
These pages include material, not in the course notes, which cover special topics. Additional topics will be added in the future.

Sustainability and Sustainable Development

Activities
Below are activities given within the course notes above:

Ecology/Observation

Population

Energy

Water Quantity

Water Quality

Web Resources
This is a collection of all of the resources listed on the course notes pages. See also the next two sections.

Other Resources
Environmental Education - This page is a link to web resources on the environment

Environmental Glossary - A glossary of environmental terms (note it is incomplete).

Miniblog for Science Man students

Ajahn John's blog on the environment (See also individual articles listed in the course notes)

Keeping up with environment news
One very good way to understand environmental issues is to follow the environmental news. There are a number of websites which are dedicated to environmental news (either general or a specific aspect).

RSS Feeds - one good way to keep up with news is to use RSS feeds. For a good description of RSS see the BBC's Feed Page. For reading feeds we recommend Google Reader - especially since you can use it from any computer.

Below is some recommended sites.

News Sites


 * Planet Ark (Reuters) (no RSS)


 * Environmental News Network (RSS)


 * ReliefWeb (humanitarian issues) (RSS)

Blogs


 * EcoGeek (emphasis on energy technology) (RSS)


 * Ecoworldly (RSS)


 * Reuters Environmental Blog (RSS)


 * Science and Development Network (RSS)


 * Triple Pundit (articles on sustainable business) (RSS)

Intergovernmental and Non-governmental Organizations


 * United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) (News) (RSS)


 * World Resources Institute (WRI) (RSS)


 * Worldwatch Institute (RSS)