Course review
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• A perspective is how a situation is viewed and understood by an individual • Based on mix of personal and collective assumptions, values and beliefs • Personal perspectives influence choices and actions on environmental/social issues
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• Informed by sociocultural norms, scientific understandings, laws, religion • Informed by economic conditions, local/global events, lived experience • Perspective ≠ argument (arguments support or counter perspectives)
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• Qualities or principles with worth and importance in life • Affect priorities, judgements, perspectives and choices • Individual but shared/shaped by community
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• Seen through communication and actions • Organizations show values through advertisements, media, policies, actions • Different values → tensions between individuals and organizations
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• Investigate social group perspectives towards environmental issues • Effective design accommodates various perspectives
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• Lenses shared by groups to perceive and act within environment • Shape values/perspectives through culture, philosophy, ideology, religion, politics • Internet/social media expand influence beyond local community • Models to classify perspectives are useful but imperfect
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• Model showing inputs affecting perspectives and resulting outputs • Inputs: media, education, worldviews • Outputs: judgements, positions, choices, actions
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• Technocentric: technology can resolve all environmental issues • Anthropocentric: humans as central/most important element • Ecocentric: natural world has pre-eminent importance and intrinsic value • Categories not exclusive, individuals have complex mix
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• Perspectives and beliefs change over time in all societies • Influenced by government/NGO campaigns, social/demographic change
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• Influenced by individuals, literature, media • Major disasters (e.g., Chernobyl, Fukushima) • International agreements (e.g., Rio Earth Summit, COP conferences) • Technological developments (e.g., Green Revolution) • Scientific discoveries (e.g., pesticide toxicity, habitat degradation)
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