Environmental Systems and Societies · Topic 1: Foundation
ES1.1 — Perspectives
Environmental Systems and Societies · SL / HL · syllabus-mapped notes
Perspectives, values and worldviews
What a perspective is, the factors that inform it, and how values and worldviews underpin it.
Environmental value systems and worldview categories
The EVS model (inputs, values, outputs) and the technocentric, anthropocentric and ecocentric spectrum.
Investigating and tracking perspectives
Values surveys and behaviour-time graphs: the two syllabus skills for studying perspectives empirically.
The environmental movement
The seven categories of influence that have shaped the movement, one example needed from each.