Talk:Environmental science
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--Alex 08:53, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
need research on estate management/valuation relating to estate management.
- This does not sound appropropriate to environmental science. --Alan Liefting 07:41, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Edits need justification
I put in a new form of this article three weeks ago. Since then it has been progressively shortened. Some of the edits appear to be positive. Other have removed important parts of the article. Pleae report your edits here in the future, along with justifications.
Where..here??
[edit] Content
Sorry folks but this whole article is unfocussed, mixes politics and science irrationally, repeats what is already better explained in other articles and is, in part, simply wrong. I would vote for starting again and would suggest the following starting point.
- Environmental Science is a term used to describe all those scientific activities associated with the understanding of the natural environment and the anthropengenic impacts upon it. Environmental scientists can therefore be found in a wide range of displines including Ecology, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geography, Geology, Meteorology as well as the very many derived disciplines such as Limnology, Geomorphology, palaeontology etc.
- The new understandings that Environmental scientists provide can often lead to difficult political decisions for society as it tries to balance the benefits of a sustainable natural environment against the need for food, housing and growth. The role of the environmental scientist remains that of providing scientifically verifiable advice and highligting the environmental consequences of proposed political courses of action.
Velela 09:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Note also the presence of an earlier version which may be acceptable: [1] --Stemonitis 12:39, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
I agree - let's go with that. Do you want to do the revert? Melancholia 14:00, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
- Consider it done. --Stemonitis 14:19, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
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- Yeah, nice job with the inapproriate melee...just edit next time. Editing works better. Thank you, I will be re-adding something. Have a nice day! - Hard Raspy Sci 14:54, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
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- i have done a major rewrite on Environmental science and it still needs further work; at least now it is focussed and accurate Anlace 02:24, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Statistics
As an important note and for example, this line was removed;
- As an interdisciplinary subject, the environmental sciences also provide studies in statistical areas, and so in mathematics.
1st it was placed out of the main part of the article, maybe in a commentary or discussion like manner. Discussions are for this page. But more importantly it is redundant by implication. Science, all science, is based on Statistics. Economics, not a science, is based on statistics. The article already says this by mentioning Chemistry, Physics, Ecology, and so on. - Hard Raspy Sci 22:32, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Environmental science template
I don't think that template is appropriate for this article if its purpose is to list environmental technologies which are actually more Civil Engineering than Environmental Sciences.
The other obvious thing about this is article is that it's singler. I think we should be talking about 'Environmental Sciences' of which there are many, rather than this singler thing which is poorly defined. This point is reinforced by the fact that you start talking about subcategories of this 'science' which are infact sciences themselves! ;-) Also, whoever wrote 'Atmospheric sciences' in this article can't really disagree with me. Supposed 06:51, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
