Describe in your own words what you understand by the term ‘ecology’.
Why is ecology not limited only to the forces of nature?
Describe the two-way process by which ‘social environments’ emerge.
Why and how does social organisation shape the relationship between the environment and society?
Why is environmental management a complex and huge task for society?
What are some of the important forms of pollution-related environmental hazards?
What are the major environmental issues associated with resource depletion?
Explain why environmental problems are simultaneously social problems.
What is meant by social ecology?
Describe some environment related conflicts that you know of or have read about. (Other than the examples in the text.)
