COORDINATORS:
ASSOCIATE PROF. ÖRGEN UĞURLU (KOCAELİ UNIVERSITY)
DR. GÜNAY GÖNÜLLÜ (KOCAELİ UNIVERSITY)
Environmental studies is a multidisciplinary academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment in the interests of solving complex problems. Environmental studies brings together the principles of sciences, commerce/ economics and social sciences so as to solve contemporary environmental problems. It is a broad field of study that includes the natural environment, the built environment, and the sets of relationships between them. The field encompasses study in basic principles of ecology and environmental science, as well as associated subjects such as ethics, geography, anthropology, policy, politics, law, economics, philosophy, environmental sociology and environmental justice, planning, pollution control and natural resource management
- Aquatic and environmental engineering
- Biomimetics (Biomimicry)
- Climatology
- Ecological economics
- Ecological engineering
- Ecological genetics
- Ecological humanities
- Ecological literacy
- Ecological psychology
- Energy and environment
- Environmental archaeology
- Environmental chemistry
- Environmental design
- Environmental economics
- Environmental effects on physiology
- Environmental engineering
- Environmental ethics
- Environmental finance
- Environmental geography
- Environmental geology
- Environmental history
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental justice
- Environmental law
- Environmental management
- Environmental psychology
- Environmental policy
- Environmental science
- Environmental security
- Environmental sociology
- Environmental soil science
- Environmental technology
- Environmental toxicology
- Geomatics
- Landscape architecture
- Hydrology
- Sustainability science
- Sustainability studies
- Traditional environmental knowledge
