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First teaching 2015
Last exams 2025
Environmental Value Systems
Written by: Alistair Marjot
Reviewed by: Bridgette Barrett
Environmental Value Systems
An environmental value system (EVS) is the way that an individual, or any group of people, perceives the environment and the resources it provides them with
That includes you - your environmental value system determines the way that you perceive and evaluate environmental issues, as well as the course of action you might decide to take regarding these issues
A person’s or group’s environmental value system is shaped and influenced by a variety of factors, including cultural, religious, social, political, economic and environmental factors
These factors act as flows of information into individuals within societies
Individuals then process and transform this information into their perception of the environment and how to act on environmental matters
EVS Inputs & Outputs
An environmental value system is considered as a system because it is determined by a set of inputs (i.e. the factors described above) and generates a set of outputs (in the form of of the person’s or group’s perceptions, evaluations, decisions and actions)
Like any system, an environmental value system (EVS) has a set of inputs and a set of outputs
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