IB ESS 1.1 Environmental Value Systems Includes the different EVS as well as several major landmarks in the environmental movements environmental value system A particular world view or set of paradigms which shape the way an individual or group of people perceive and evaluate environmental issues. This will be influenced by cultural, economic and socio-political context.

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IB ESS 1.1 Environmental Value Systems Includes the different EVS as well as several major landmarks in the environmental movements environmental value system A particular world view or set of parad... igms which shape the way an individual or group of people perceive and evaluate environmental issues. This will be influenced by cultural, economic and socio-political context. ecocentrists puts ecology and nature as central to humanity and emphasizes a less materialistic approach to life with greater self-sufficiency of societies anthropocentrists believes humans must sustainably manage the global system; human-centered-- in which humans are not dependent on nature but nature is there to benefiot humankind technocentrists believes that technological developments can provide solutions to environmental problems. deep-ecologists extreme ecocentrists; out more value on nature than humanity; believers in universal rights where all species and ecosystems have an inherent value and humans have no right to interfere with this environmental managers "stewardship worldview"; believe humans have an ethical duty to protect and nurture the earth cornucopians view the world as having infinite resources to benefit humanity bio-centrists see all life as having an inherent value for its own sake, not just for humans Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring', 1962 Lead to general acceptan [Show More]

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