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Key words Topic one
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- 1EVSworldwide 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.
- 2Influential individualsoften use media publications to raise issues and start the debate such as Rachel Carson- silent spring
- 3independent pressure groupsuse awareness campaigns to effect a change. Such as greenpeace
- 4corporate buisnessare involved since they supply consumer demand such as TNCs
- 5Govermentsmake policy decisions including environmental ones to manage the country
- 6intergovernmental bodiesinfluential by holding earth summits to bring together governments such as united nations
- 7Bhopal disasterconsidered worlds worst industrial disaster. A union carbide pesticide plant released 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate
- 8chernobylthe worst nuclear disaster
- 9fukushima daiichianother nuclear accident. Am earthquake set off a tsunami which broke down 3 reactors in a plant
- 10ecocentricputs ecology and nature as central to humanity
- 11anthropocentricbelieves humans must sustainability manage the global system
- 12technocentricbelieves that technological developments can provide solution to environmental problems
- 13cornucopainsextreme technocentrists, see world as having infinitive resources to benefit humanity
- 14environmental managerstechnocentrics, they see the earth as a garden that needs tending, the stewardship worldview
- 15biocentriclife centered, see all life as having inherent value. shouldn't cause premature extinction of any other species
- 16Deep ecologistsput more value on nature than humanity. All species and ecosystem have inherent value and humans should interfere
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