IB ESS Unit 1 - Foundations of Environmental Systems and Societies, Top Exam Questions coverage, rated A+

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IB ESS Unit 1 - Foundations of Environmental Systems and Societies, Top Exam Questions coverage, rated A+ environmental value system (EVS) - ✔✔-a world view or paradigm that shapes the way an... individual or group of people perceive and evaluate environmental issues. This is influenced by cultural, religious, economic, and socio-political context. ecocentric worlview - ✔✔-puts ecology and nature as central to humanity anthropocentric worldview - ✔✔-believes humans must sustainably manage the global system technocentric worldview - ✔✔-believes that technological developments can provide solutions to environmental problems cornucopians - ✔✔-extreme technocentrists who see the world as having infinite resources to benefit humanity environmental managers - ✔✔-moderate technocentrists who see the Earth as a garden that needs tending - the stewardship worldview. biocentric worlview - ✔✔-see all life as having inherent value - value for its own sake, not just for humans deep ecologists - ✔✔-put more value on nature than humanity. They believe in biorights - universal rights where all species and ecosystems have an inherent value and humans have no right to interfere with this system - ✔✔-a set of inter-related parts working together t [Show More]

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