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How do ecology and environmental science differ?​

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1= Ecology focus on the interactions between organisms and their environment (including other organisms). Thus it focuses on the interactions between different organisms in an ecosystem (including humans) and the abiotic (non-living) parts of the ecosystem (climate, topography, geology, soil etc.). Environmental science tends to look at things from a human (and conservation) point of view.

2= Ecology tends to focus more on the theory (the “why” questions), while environmental science focus more on the practical application (the “how” questions). However, there are many kinds of applied ecology as well. One difference will be that applied ecology will always include as much about the interactions between organisms and our understanding of such as possible, while environmental science can often ignore these when applying its conservation measures.

3= Ecology is just one discipline within the wider environmental sciences. Other sciences like the social sciences (including economy, human policies, management, sociology, geography and even anthropology) and general biology can be used in environmental science, in addition to ecology (the interaction between organisms). Ecology is an environmental science… but environmental science includes much more (e.g. waste management) that has little or nothing to do with ecology.

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