The following document contains summarised notes taken on Topic 1. Foundations of Environmental Systems and Societies . This includes: 1.1 Environmental value systems,1.2 Systems and models, 1.3 Energy and equilibria, 1.4 Sustainability and 1.5 Humans and pollution.
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,An Environmental Value Systems
1.1.1 The environmental movement
Environmental problems surged
the 50s and 60s due to in
economic growth around the world Natural
capital was used to .
generate natural income They realised extraction was unsustainable
.
and market failure occurred to make
The was the .
problem system
making profit
business as was their
only concern .
Negative externality
of production The answer be in the Soviet countries because
.
may
industries were run for the
good of the Economists realised
people .
about the environmental problems on the Around the 60s
planet .
,
to the anti
young people wanted protect planet They.
the first Earth
were
capitalism anti free market This led to day
-
.
,
on April 22nd .
Preservationists :
By the end of the 19th
century
environmentalist
.
started to apear as
they believed that land has intrinsic
value →
deep ecologists
In the
conservationists :
beginning of the 20th century people .
advocated
for controland
population resource
management rather conserving the
Earth for intrinsic
They allowed sustainable development
its value .
→ environmental managers
, 1.1.2
Hope for the future
Chernobyl catastrophe -
1986
Chernobyl was nuclear accident that released radioactive
a
material into the atmosphere It spread over Western USSR and Europe
.
.
Facts and figures :
↳ cancer in the area
↳
towns abandoned
↳ contamination
↳
crops could contain radioactivity
↳ animal abnormalities
Reactions and
impacts :
↳
Chernobyl shelter fond
↳
Chernobyl Recovery and Development programme
↳ Increased regulatory procedures for nuclear power
↳
Safety standards
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