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| Important figure or event that has shaped the development of the environmental movement. |
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| education,cultural influences, religious doctrine, media |
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Paradigms, decisions, perspectives, courses of action determined by processing these inputs. economic and socio-political contexts. |
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| Influencers that impact of the environment. |
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| Outcome or result of action taken. |
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| Environmental value system that equates to the perspectives on how indiviuals view and take action that impact the environment. |
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| Wrote the book Silent Spring to bring awareness of DDT pesticide affect on organisms. |
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| Created the Gaia Hypothesis on the Earth as a single living system that self regulates it self. Harming one part affects the whole system. |
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| Nuclear power plant in Japan in which the power & cooling system cut off and reactor cords melted. Poor safety checks led to need for evacuation but poor displacement lresulted in to many deaths |
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| Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico causing water pollution that affected aquatic organisms. |
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| Nuclear power plant incident causing massive radiation material spread throughout the environment of a section of Europe. |
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| United nation conference conventions on environmental development dealing with climate change, biodiversity, forestry and recommended a list of development practices called Agenda 21. It gave the concept of sustainable development to be combined economic growth with ecological responsibility. |
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