Environmental Worldviews and attitudes

Name the Three Major Environmental Worldviews

Human-centred (Planetary management)

Stewardship

Earth-centred (Environmental Management)

5 types of environmental worldviews

Egocentric

Anthropocentric

Stewardship

Biocentric

Ecocentric

Name the characteristics of Human-centred (Planetary Management) 

We are apart from the rest of nature and can manage nature to meet our increasing needs and wants  

We will not run out of resources  

The potential for economic growth is essentially unlimited  

Our success depends on how well we manage the earth’s life-support systems mostly for our own benefit  

Name the characteristics of Stewardship

We have an ethical responsibility to be caring managers of the earth 

We will probably not run out of resources, but they shouldn’t be wasted   

We should encourage environmentally beneficial forms of economic growth and discourage environmentally harmful forms  

Our success depends on how well we manage the earth’s life support systems for our own benefit and for the rest of nature  

Name the characteristics of Earth-centred (Environmental Management) 

We are a part of and dependent on nature, and nature exists for all species 

Resources are limited and should not be wasted  

We should encourage earth-sustaining forms of economic growth and discourage earth-degrading forms  

Our success depends on how nature sustains itself, learning from nature and implementing those lessons into how we think and act 

Define Egocentric 

Define Anthropocentric

The belief that humans are the most important beings on Earth 

Stewardship 

An ethical responsibility as humans to be caring and responsible managers of the Earth 

Biocentric

All living things has an inherent value, centred on living organisms 

Ecocentric

All living and non-living things has an inherent value, humans don’t have an inherent value than other things