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Week 1 Further Reading

This is optional extra reading and not required for this course. For those of you who wish to explore this week’s topic further, here is an excellent resource to get …

Ecological Footprints

Building on this idea of a global environmental bank account, our ecological footprint gives us an idea of how much we as individuals are withdrawing from that account. Watch Dr. …

Demographic Transition Models

As we have seen, human population growth is dynamic. Demographic transition models aim to explore and explain the movement of human demography over time. Watch Dr. Nathan B. English examine …

E-waste

E-waste is a growing component of the waste stream that is comprised of anything that has had electricity run through it. Because of the components of e-waste, it can be …

Age structures

In addition to the overall size of the population, another human demography factor that is interesting to scientists is age structure. Watch Dr. Nathan B. English explain how the proportion …

Week 4 Introduction

Welcome to week 4. This week we will turn our attention to waste generation and the ways that we can change our behaviours to address waste problems that affect the …

Human pressures on the global environment

We have seen that our population is growing but what has changed to make our human population grow so quickly? Watch as Dr. Nathan B. English discusses what has led …

Triple Bottom Line Accounting

While environmental science encompasses many goals, sustainability is at its core. Meanwhile, scientists and others approach sustainability issues in a cause, effect and solution manner, with quantitative and qualitative data …

Introduction to Week 3

Welcome to week 3. This week we will be discussing atmosphere and global climate change. Watch as Dr. Nathan B. English explains the topics this week will cover.

Common forms of energy

The environment has various forms of energy that are converted from one type to another by certain human and natural activities. Major forms of energy Energy can neither be created …

Introduction to Week 2

Welcome to week 2. In this week we will be examining the wicked problem of human demography. Watch as Dr. Nathan B. English explains the topics this week will cover.

Course Introduction

Welcome to Introduction to Environmental Science. This online course is brought to you by the Central Queensland University. Throughout this course, you will be guided by Dr. Nathan B. English, …

What is the atmosphere?

We begin this week by taking a look at the fragile, yet extremely important atmosphere. Watch Dr. Nathan B. English explain what makes up the atmosphere, how it is structured, …