Paper -1 Flashcards
What does the Environmental value system do?
shapes the way individuals see
environmental issues.
Ecocentrism
Minimum disturbance of natural processes.
Anthropocentrism
People as environmental managers of sustainable global systems.
Technocentrism
Technology can keep pace with and provide solutions to environmental problems.
Society
Society is defined as an arbitrary group of individuals who share some common characteristics such as location, cultural background, religion on value system.
For what is used the System approach
visualising a complex set of
interactions in a system.
System
A system is defined as an assemblage of parts and the relationships between them that enable them to work together to form a functioning whole.
Biomes
Biomes are groups of
ecosystems with similar climates
Systems may be…
Living, non-living, large, or small
Storages
Boxes
Flows
Arrows
Inputs
Arrows into the system
Outputs
Arrows out of the system
Processes
Labels
Scale of a system
The scale of a system can range from a small part of a larger ecosystem, such as a tree in a forest, to, on a larger scale, the whole ecosystem.
