DP Environmental Systems and Societies Questionbank

To what extent would different environmental value systems be successful in reducing a society’s ecological footprint?

To what extent does the development of different societies impact their choice of mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change?

In addressing environmental issues, mitigation strategies may be seen as primarily ecocentric and adaptation strategies as primarily technocentric.

To what extent is this view valid in the context of named strategies for addressing the issue of global warming?

To what extent can the different environmental value systems improve the sustainability of food production?

To what extent is the need for conservation more significant in tropical biomes?

To what extent are water scarcity issues better addressed through changing human behaviour than through technological development?

Discuss the consequences of changing global per capita meat consumption on the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity.

To what extent can different environmental value systems contribute to both causing and resolving the problem of water scarcity?

To what extent do anthropocentric value systems dominate the international efforts to address climate change?

Explain the role of two historical influences in shaping the development of the environmental movement.

To what extent does Algonquin Provincial Park provide a model of sustainable management of a protected area?

Environmental value systems differ in how they view the importance of biodiversity and this could influence a community’s approach to conservation.

Discuss how these different perspectives, including your own, may influence approaches to conservation.

Discuss the implications of environmental value systems in the protection of tropical biomes.

Explain why the harvesting of a named aquatic species may be controversial.

Outline the factors that lead to different environmental value systems in contrasting cultures.

Environmental value systems may lead to different approaches to addressing the issue of global warming. Discuss which environmental value system(s) you consider to be most appropriate in the management of global warming.

Even though there is growing global support for ecocentric values, the global consumption of fossil fuels continues to rise each year.

With reference to energy choices in named countries, discuss possible reasons for this situation occurring.

Technocentrists may support the belief that technological development has always been able to overcome limits to human population growth.

To what extent do the patterns of growth and development in human populations, as demonstrated in the Demographic Transition Model, support this claim?

Using evidence from the resource booklet, justify from an ecocentric viewpoint why the Husab Uranium Project should not be approved.

Outline two reasons why the value of resources like Uranium can change over time.

Outline two historical influences on the development of the modern environmental movement.

To what extent do the approaches and strategies of different environmental value systems improve access to fresh water?