Topic 1: Foundations of ESS ACTUAL UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
, 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 worldview values ecology, nature, and living things as being greatly important to the
existence of humanity
anthropocentric worldview believes humans must manage the global system to meet our needs
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
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 to make a complex whole
open system exchanges matter and energy with its surroundings
ANSWERS
, 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 worldview values ecology, nature, and living things as being greatly important to the
existence of humanity
anthropocentric worldview believes humans must manage the global system to meet our needs
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
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 to make a complex whole
open system exchanges matter and energy with its surroundings
