Environmental studies

The field encompasses study in basic principles of ecology and environmental science, as well as associated subjects such as ethics, geography, anthropology, public policy (environmental policy), education, political science (environmental politics), urban planning, law, economics, philosophy, sociology and social justice, planning, pollution control, and natural resource management.

Environmental education's main goal is to instill in all members of society a pro-environmental thinking and attitude.

[11] In 2010, the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) agreed to advise and support the association.

Universities In the United States, many high school students are able to take environmental science as a college-level course.

The attempt to define the field of environmental studies has resulted in a discussion over its role in the curriculum.

The primary goal of environmental studies is to assist children in understanding the processes that influence their surroundings so that they do not stay a passive, and often befuddled, observer of the environment, but rather become knowledgeable active mediators of it.

The study of the environment can be considered to offer unique chances for the development and exercise of the general cognitive skills that Piaget's work has made educators aware of.