IB ESS Key terms (ALL)

Environmental Value System (EVS) - Answer-A worldwide view that shapes the way an individual or group of people perceive and evaluate environmental issues. Cornucopians - Answer-See the world as having infinite resources to benefit humanity Environmental Managers - Answer-See the earth as a garden that needs tending to Ecocentric - Answer-Believes that the views on earth are to simplistic. They also believe in preserving the earth Biocentric - Answer-All life has an inherent value, a value for themselves, not just of humans Deep Ecologists - Answer-More value on nature than humans Anthropocentric - Answer-Says that humans must sustainably manage the world Technocentric - Answer-Technology can fix all of our problems A system approach - Answer-Way of visualizing a complex set of interactions which may be ecological or societal Open system - Answer-Exchanges both energy and matter across the boundary Closed system - Answer-Only exchanges energy across a boundary Isolated system - Answer-Hypothetical concept in which neither energy nor matter is exchanged Transfers - Answer-Occur when energy or matter flows and changes location but does not change its state Transformations - Answer-Occur when energy or matter flows and changes its state First law of thermodynamics - Answer-Energy cannot be created nor destroyed Second law of thermodynamics - Answer-Entropy of a system increases overtime Entropy - Answer-A measure of the amount go disorder in a system Negative Feedback loop - Answer-stabilizing Positive Feedback loop - Answer-destabilizing Resilience - Answer-tendency to avoid such tipping points and maintain stability