Envirnomental value systems EVS

25 Jan Envirnomental value systems EVS

An EVS is a worldview or paradigm that shapes the way an individual, or group of people, perceives and evaluates environmental issues, influenced by cultural, religious, economic and socio-political contexts.

• Significant historical influences on the development of the environmental movement have come from literature, the media, major environmental disasters, international agreements and technological developments.
• An EVS might be considered as a system in the sense that it may be influenced by education, experience, culture and media (inputs), and involves a set of interrelated premises, values and arguments that can generate consistent decisions and evaluations (outputs).
• There is a spectrum of EVSs, from ecocentric through anthropocentric to technocentric value systems.

Some of the examples to understand differences in EVS are:

1. The Gaia hypothesis;
2. Minamata disaster;
3. Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring (1962);,
4. An Inconvenient Truth (2006);
5. Chernobyl disaster of 1986;
6. Fukushima inuclear disaster of 2011;
7. Bhopal disaster of 1984;
8. Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010;
9. Chipko movement;
10. Rio Earth Summit 2012 (Rio+20);
11. Earth Day;
12. Green Revolution

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