IB ESS Unit 1 - Foundations of Environmental Systems and Societies

environmental value system (EVS) - Answer- 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 - Answer- puts ecology and nature as central to humanity anthropocentric worldview - Answer- believes humans must sustainably manage the global system technocentric worldview - Answer- believes that technological developments can provide solutions to environmental problems cornucopians - Answer- extreme technocentrists who see the world as having infinite resources to benefit humanity environmental managers - Answer- moderate technocentrists who see the Earth as a garden that needs tending - the stewardship worldview. biocentric worlview - Answer- see all life as having inherent value - value for its own sake, not just for humans deep ecologists - Answer- 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 - Answer- a set of inter-related parts working together to make a complex whole open system - Answer- exchanges matter and energy with its surroundings closed system - Answer- exchanges energy but not matter with its surroundings isolated system - Answer- exchanges neither matter nor energy with its surroundings transfer - Answer- occurs when energy or matter flows and changes location but does not change its state transformation - Answer- occurs when energy or matter flows and changes its state - a change in the chemical nature, a change in state or a change in energy systems approach - Answer- a way of visualizing a complex set of interactions which may be