1.1.7—Environmental value systems
- Syllabus
- First assessment 2026
- Objective
- 1.1.7
- Level
- SL
Trace Information Through an Environmental Value System
An environmental value system models how information enters a person or group, is interpreted through values, and emerges as judgements, positions, choices or actions.
Use the model to explain different outputs from the same input. Education, media or a worldview may supply information, but interpretation—not mechanical transmission—changes the result.
The same drought report leads one council to restrict water use and another to invest in desalination because their priorities and constraints differ.
Compare the values and assumptions that interpret the input before explaining the output.
Information does not pass mechanically from input to action; values mediate it.