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This includes such things as earthqakes and volcanoes, droughts and floods, storms, and influences of climate. |
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Science is vital to study of environmental effects on man. Physics and chemistry are not directly very useful. Astronomy has some connection, although human life is not known to exist other than on earth. There are connections to cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and solar system astronomy. Earth science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and geohistory is is a good deal more useful to this area. Biology is not as directly connected to this area. |
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Personal studies including psychology and biography will be useful. The human body including body structure, body function, life cycle, disease, and form and appearance is significant. This also depends somewhat on social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, other areas of human ecology, human geography, and particular groups. Culture including material culture, conceptual culture, and behavioral culture is often used to modify direct environmental effects. Institutions including families, education, economics, government, and religion may be useful. Sociology including social structure and change, communities, and peoples of the world will be useful in describing some of these changes. The history of these interactions can be followed to some extent through prehistory, antiquity, classical and medieval history, and has been closely studied in modern history. The future of these studies is obscure |
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