VPE 511: Environment and Environmental Hygiene (2+1)

DEFINITION

• Environment means the surroundings of an organism. The French word ‘Environner’ means ‘to surround’. Environment includes water, air, land and their interrelationships and interactions with living organisms and their properties. All physical and biological surroundings of an organism and their interactions indicate its environment. According to the Encylopedia of Science and Technology, environment is a collective term describing the conditions surrounding an organism.

• Environmental Science is an inter-disciplinary study which deals with the interaction of a human species with other species and the non-living environment.
• Environmental Studies include the study of atmosphere, the land ,the oceans and the chemical cycles that flow through physical and biological systems.
• According to Newman, Environmental studies deal with the disturbances in the environment and their reduction through societal changes. According to him Environmental Science is the study of processes which occur in water, air, soil and in living organisms leading to pollution, and solution to minimize the environmental impacts.