Environmental Value Sytems

1. Environmental Value Systems (EVS)

Environmental Value Systems

These are worldview or paradigms that shape the way an individual or group of people perceive and evaluate environmental issues.

There are many factors that will affect a persons environmental values. Parental influences, educational experiences, news and media, the society that they live in

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Environmental Value Systems

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Fig 3.6: OECD Background

Fig 3.7: OECD Aims

2. Systems and Models

Fig 3.7: WTO 2017 Report

Global trade in merchandise

Tasks

3. Energy and equilibria

Fig 3.15: Systems and Models slideshow

Fig 3.14: Feedback Loops

4. Sustainability

Fig 3.7: OECD Aims

Fig 3.6: Tragedy of the comons

Ecological Footprint and Earth Overshoot

Fig 3.7: Earth Overshoot Historical

Fig 3.7: Earth Overshoot Day per Country

Fig 3.6: Ecological Footprint

Ecological Footprints

Tasks

Use the 3 web link to answer the following questions:

What is the Earth overshoot day (use this link)
Study figure 1: Describe the pattern shown in the graph below (use data). [3 marks]
Suggest 3 reasons for the pattern shown. [3 marks]
Why should we be concerned about the pattern (link your answer to sustainability) [3 marks]
Study figure 2 Explain why some countries have much earlier dates than others. (include population levels, development, natural resources, biomes) [8 marks]
Use this link to calculate your own Ecological Footprint. Screenshot the result and insert in your doc. [2 marks]
How could you reduce your ecological footprint - suggest 2 main ways. [2 marks]

5. Pollution

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