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belief system that shapes the way one thinks

technocentrics that believe in the abundance of natural resources and the capacity of human ingenuity to overcome environmental limits.

Nature centrered human centered technology centered cornupians The ecocentric worldview – **puts ecology and nature as central ** to humanity and emphasizes a less materialistic approach to life with greater self-sufficiency of societies. ●➔ The anthropocentric worldview – believes humans must sustainably manage the global system. This might be through the use of taxes, environmental regulation and legislation. Is human- centred – in which humans are not dependent on nature but nature is there to benefit humankind. ●➔ The technocentric worldview – believes that technological developments can provide solutions to environmental problems. Environmental managers are technocentrists. Extreme technocentrists are cornucopians.

a collection of parts forming a functioning whole

the emerging of new properties from a system

lets exchange of energy and matter eg forest

energy in but not matter in or out eg biosphere

lets no matter or energy in and out. eg universe

Transfer refers to the movement of substances from one location to another

change in form or state of matter ie from liquid to gas

energy can neither be created nor destroyed but can be converted from one form to another

this is when an output becomes an input of a system

entrophy increases overtime entrophy is the measure of disorder in a system

“equilibrium” refers to a state of balance or stability in a system

negative feedback is overcome

system moves away from equilibrium

system moves towards equilibrium

biodiversity large population climate

the whole earth is an organism

ability of a sysytem to return to its original state after a disturbance

assess the impacts of a project and mitigation strategies.

acesses health of an ecosystem using environmental indicators accessment using environmental indicators to find ways of conservivng theecosystem uses science to access the environmental indicators to find ways of conservivng them eg using an indicator species to to find a disease and how to treat the population

this is the contamination of an environment with harmful substance that affects the health of organisms

ocur for a short period of time