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Environmental Value System
Topic 1 of the IB environmental systems and societies
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Environmental Studies
12th Grade
09/07/2021

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(EVS)-Environmental value system
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A worldview that mounds the way both individuals and the societies form, perceive and evaluate environmental concerns.
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EVS Influencers
Definition
Areas such as social, political, economic, cultural contexts, religious, media, etc.
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Historical Environmental Influencer
Definition
Events or moments in times that have positively or negatively led to major impact and changes in global environmental concerns
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Ecocentric
Definition
View points that are nature centered in regards to environmental values. Ecology and nature is the focus.
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Anthropocentric
Definition
View point is people centered. Argues that humans must sustain and manage the global system.
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Technocentric
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Viewpoint that is technology centered. Argues that technological developments can provide solutions to environmental problems.
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Deep ecologist
Definition
  1. An environmental movement and philosophy which regards human life as just one of many equal components of a global ecosystem.
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Soft Ecologist
Definition
Believes that living things have intrinsic moral value; favors self-restraint, legislation, and community organizing and participation; mistrust of technology.
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Intrinsic values
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Involves performing a task because it's personally rewarding to you. Perspective that nature has value in its own right, independent of human uses.
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Cornucopian
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Individuals on the extreme end who assert that the environmental problems faced by society either do not exist or can be solved by technology or the free market. 
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Input -System - Output
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System means that affect and influence environmental issues.

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Extrinsic Value
Definition
 Involves completing a task or exhibiting a behavior because of outside causes such as avoiding punishment or receiving a reward.
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