Perspectives
the rights of all people live in an unpolluted environment and have equal access to natural resources.
What is Environmental Justice?
Science that uses the involvement of the public in scientific research to generate data.
Citizen Science
The part of the Earth inhabited by organisms that extends from the upper parts of the atmosphere to deep within the Earth's crust.
What is the biosphere?
The ability of a given biologically productive area to generate an ongoing supply of renewable resources and to absorb its wastes.
What is biocapacity?
Qualities or principles that people feel have worth and importance in life.
What is a "value"?
This measures environmental costs and subtracts these from GDP.
What is Green GDP?
Characteristics that are shown by a whole system but not by individual components of the system.
What are emergent properties?
A set of interrelated parts and the connection between them that unites them to form a complex whole and produces emergent properties.
What is a system?
The area of land and water required to support a defined human population at a given standard of living; the measure takes account of the area required to provide all the resources needed by the population and the disposal of waste materials.
What is an ecological footprint?
is a worldview that places humans at the centre of our value system (human interests and well-being are the primary focus). Nature is often seen as a resource for humans and is valued primarily for its usefulness, reflecting a utilitarian approach. views humankind as being the central, most important element of existence, and it splits into a wide variety of views
What is anthropocentrism?
An economy that is low carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive.
What is a green economy?
Questionnaires that can be used to investigate the perspectives shown by a particular social group towards environmental issues.
What is a value survey?
Anything that has mass and occupies space. It includes all physical substances, composed of atoms and molecules, that make up the universe.
What is matter?
Use of resources that meets the news of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
What is sustainable development?
A viewpoint that puts ecology and nature as central to humanity, seeing the natural world as having pre-eminent importance and intrinsic value
What is ecocentrism?
An arbitrary group of individuals who share some common characteristics, such as geographical location, cultural background, historical time frame, religious perspective, value system and so on.
What is a society
Proposed by James Lovelock, suggesting the Earth and its biological systems function as a single, self-regulating organism that life interacts to maintain conditions that support life, creating a feedback loop that stabilizes the planet's climate and environment.
What is the Gaia Hypothesis?
The capacity to do work or cause change. It exists in various forms, such as kinetic, thermal, electrical, and chemical, and can be transferred or transformed between these forms but not created or destroyed.
What is energy?
Focuses on creating the structures and systems, such as health and education, equity, community, that support human well-being
What is Social Sustainability?
A model that shows the inputs affecting our perspectives and the outputs resulting from our perspectives.
What is an Environmental Value System?
An environmental management strategy that means whoever designs, produces, sells, or uses a product takes responsibility for minimizing the product's environmental impact throughout all stages of the product's life
What is project stewardship (ethical design)
Is a measure of the monetary value of final goods and service produced and sold in a given period by a country
What is GDP?
The minimum amount of change that will cause destabilization within a system which then shifts to a new equilibrium or stable state.
What is a tipping point?
Focuses on creating the monetary structures and systems to support production and consumption of goods and services that will support human needs into the future
What is economic sustainability?
Worldviews are the lenses shared by groups of people through which they perceive, make sense of and act within their environment. They shape people's values and perspectives through culture, philosophy, ideology, religion and politics
What is a World View?