EoE – Environmental Science course

EoE – the Encyclopedia of Earth has a vast range of resources growing by the month. This feature highlights an online course in Environmental Science. From the site:

Upon completion of this course you will:

• Know and understand the levels of the ecological hierarchy.
• Appreciate the integration of natural processes that govern the natural world.
• Appreciate the importance of maintaining a sustaining biosphere for the continued presence of a human population on the earth.
• Understand the pragmatic and realistic difficulties of integrating human societal needs without further compromising ecological processes.
• Become familiar with the ecological background to global environmental problems.
• Realize the consequences of our individual and joint actions upon the biosphere.