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The following document contains summarised notes taken on Topic 1. Foundations of Environmental Systems and Societies . This includes: 1.1 Environmental value systems,1.2 Systems and models, 1.3 Energy and equilibria, 1.4 Sustainability and 1.5 Humans and pollution. The use of colourful images, graphs, charts and texts are being utilised to help in the visualisation of the information to improve content understanding.

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,An Environmental Value Systems
1.1.1 The environmental movement

Environmental problems surged
the 50s and 60s due to in
economic growth around the world Natural
capital was used to .




generate natural income They realised extraction was unsustainable
.




and market failure occurred to make
The was the .




problem system
making profit
business as was their
only concern .




Negative externality
of production The answer be in the Soviet countries because
.
may
industries were run for the
good of the Economists realised
people .




about the environmental problems on the Around the 60s
planet .
,


to the anti
young people wanted protect planet They.




the first Earth
were

capitalism anti free market This led to day
-
.




,



on April 22nd .




Preservationists :
By the end of the 19th
century
environmentalist
.




started to apear as
they believed that land has intrinsic
value →
deep ecologists
In the
conservationists :
beginning of the 20th century people .
advocated
for controland
population resource
management rather conserving the
Earth for intrinsic
They allowed sustainable development
its value .




→ environmental managers

, 1.1.2
Hope for the future

Chernobyl catastrophe -
1986


Chernobyl was nuclear accident that released radioactive
a

material into the atmosphere It spread over Western USSR and Europe
.
.




Facts and figures :




↳ cancer in the area



towns abandoned

↳ contamination



crops could contain radioactivity
↳ animal abnormalities

Reactions and
impacts :





Chernobyl shelter fond


Chernobyl Recovery and Development programme

↳ Increased regulatory procedures for nuclear power



Safety standards
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