环境研究是对围绕环境和生态系统健康的管理和监测的社会，经济和法规环境的研究。该专业将社会和生物物理现象的研究纳入其法规和政策框架，因此具有内在的多学科性。环境研究专业将为您提供有关您在环境部门的职业生涯将要运作的治理框架的理解，包括可持续性，环境评估，法律，道德，发展，能源使用，经济和政治的基本方面。因此，该专业的ENVI's学习单元是对物理和自然科学学科以及社会学科的补充。
Environmental Studies is the examination of the social, economic and regulatory contexts that surround the management and monitoring of environmental and ecosystem health. <br><br>This major incorporates the study of both social and bio-physical phenomena within their regulatory and policy frameworks, and is therefore inherently multi-disciplinary.<br><br>The Environmental Studies major will provide you with an understanding of the governance framework in which your professional career in the environment sector will operate, including the fundamental aspects of sustainability, environmental assessment, law, ethics, development, energy use, economics and politics.<br><br>Consequently, the ENVI units of study in this major are complementary to studies in the physical and natural science disciplines as well as the social disciplines.