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Created by bil0052309
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| Question | Answer |
| EVS | worldwide view or paradigm that shapes the way an individual or group of people perceive and evaluate environmental issues. Can be influenced by culture , religion. e.c.t. |
| Influential individuals | often use media publications to raise issues and start the debate such as Rachel Carson- silent spring |
| independent pressure groups | use awareness campaigns to effect a change. Such as greenpeace |
| corporate buisness | are involved since they supply consumer demand such as TNCs |
| Goverments | make policy decisions including environmental ones to manage the country |
| intergovernmental bodies | influential by holding earth summits to bring together governments such as united nations |
| Bhopal disaster | considered worlds worst industrial disaster. A union carbide pesticide plant released 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate |
| chernobyl | the worst nuclear disaster |
| fukushima daiichi | another nuclear accident. Am earthquake set off a tsunami which broke down 3 reactors in a plant |
| ecocentric | puts ecology and nature as central to humanity |
| anthropocentric | believes humans must sustainability manage the global system |
| technocentric | believes that technological developments can provide solution to environmental problems |
| cornucopains | extreme technocentrists, see world as having infinitive resources to benefit humanity |
| environmental managers | technocentrics, they see the earth as a garden that needs tending, the stewardship worldview |
| biocentric | life centered, see all life as having inherent value. shouldn't cause premature extinction of any other species |
| Deep ecologists | put more value on nature than humanity. All species and ecosystem have inherent value and humans should interfere |
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