INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (ENVS 100) Professor Cinzia Fissore, Ph.D. cfissore@whittier.edu Office: Stauffer Science Building, Room 216A
Course description Over time, human activities have substantially influenced their surrounding environment, with short and long-term consequences on ecosystem processes and functions. The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the patterns and processes that characterize the environment around us and to the effects that human activities, at the local to the global scale, have on these processes. This course will provide to you the basic information concerning environmental science, climate change, and sustainability that you can explore in greater depth in other courses.