Build causal explanations that connect social context, knowledge, law, wealth and lived events to the environmental value systems adopted by different groups.
Outline the factors that lead to different environmental value systems in contrasting cultures.
Factors may include:
cultural ie some cultures place a high value on nature and thus have a more ecocentric EVS;
religious ie some religions deify certain organisms/landscapes and thus have a more ecocentric EVS;
economic ie some would argue that more economically wealthy societies tend towards a more technocentric/anthropocentric EVS;
socio-political ie some would argue that a society with a strong social political movement would tend towards a more anthropocentric EVS;
experience/history ie societies that have experienced anthropogenic disasters may become more prone to adopt ecocentric value systems;
Marking guidance:
Award [3 max] if only one category of EVS is addressed (question asks for "contrasting cultures").
Note: Full credit can be given where candidate gives a specific example to outline link between factor and EVS. However, if factors are simply named/listed without any explanatory outline broadly linking them to EVS, then award just 1 mark for every TWO valid factors identified up to 2max.