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    Environmental Systems and Societies Revision for test week Ecosystems – “An assemblage of parts working together forming a functioning whole.” “A community of independent organisms and the physical environment they inhabit.” All systems have many small parts working together. A system can be living (BIOTIC FACTORS) or non-living (ABIOTIC FACTORS) and has inputs as well as outputs. A system can be an abstract concept as well as something tangible. All systems have: * STORAGES * FLOWS

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    religions continue to express their strong relationships with nature. The Lakota view of humanity is best expressed in a Lakota phrase repeated in songs and prayers: Mitakuye oysasin. It means “all my relations” or “we are all related” and reflects the biocentric perspective that humans and all living beings are members of one spiritual family. Human

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    Choosing instead to not only think of themselves‚ but also their land as if it was as much a part of society as one of their own people. Those who follow this worldview choose to incorporate ecocentric practices that do not tread upon the diversity or fragility of the many ecosystems. They not only practice these teachings for the sake of the environment‚ but as well for themselves as they believe that it can be incorporated into our own lives

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    Week Two Student Guide In Week Two‚ you will be taking a more in-depth look at the planning function of management. This is important because the other three primary functions of management (organizing‚ leading‚ and controlling) are all based on planning. Planning is the first of the functions and is described in the readings as an activity completed at all levels of an organization. However‚ the nature of the actual planning activity changes based on the responsibility and authority of those

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    Declaration on Leading Health Promotion into the 21st Century (1997) Keith‚ D. (2008). Roadway lighting design for the optimization of UPD‚ STV and uplight. Journal of the IES ‚ 29(2)‚ 39-54. Kleffel‚ D. (1996). Environmental paradigms: Moving toward an ecocentric perspective. Advances in Nursing Science‚ 18(4)‚ 1-10. Leuning‚ C.J. (2001) Advancing a global perspective: The world as a classroom. Nursing Science Quarterly‚ 14(4)‚ 298-303. Longcore‚ T.‚ & Rich‚ C. (2004). Ecological light pollution. Frontiers

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    not deceived‚ God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth‚ that he shall also reap.” (Galatians 6:7 NIV) So we must remember whatever we do in life whether good or bad will come back in a circle. According to our lecture notes‚ “the world is biocentric and all living flora and fauna is

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    Virtue Ethics Vs Care

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    Ethics explores the principles guiding moral behavior‚ encompassing various perspectives for reasoning through moral issues. Among these paradigms‚ consequentialism and nonconsequentialism stand in stark contrast‚ while virtue ethics and care ethics offer alternative viewpoints on character and interpersonal relationships. Consequentialism focuses on the outcomes of actions to determine their morality. Utilitarianism‚ a prominent form of consequentialism‚ asserts that an action is ethical if it

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    Ethics and Values

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    psychocentric ethics‚ biocentric ethics‚ intrinsic value. Contents U SA NE M SC PL O E– C EO H AP LS TE S R S 1. Introduction 2. Meta-Ethics‚ Normative Ethics‚ and Applied Ethics 3. Reason and Objectivity in Judgments about Ethics and Values 4. Ethics‚ Values‚ and Sustainability 4.1 Self Interest 4.2 Ethical Considerability and Ethical Significance 4.3 Good and Better‚ Bad and Worse 5. Varieties of Ethics 5.1 Human-Centered Ethics 5.2 Psychocentric Ethics 5.3 Biocentric Ethics 5.4

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    What do Henry Thoreau‚ Aldo Leopard‚ and Paul Shepard have in common? They were all well known environmentalists that influenced the creation of the Deep Ecology movement as well as the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Deep Ecology is the belief that “the well-being and flourishing of human and nonhuman life on Earth have value in themselves [and those] values are independent of the usefulness of the nonhuman world for human purposes” (Foundation for Deep Ecology). Rachel Carson’s novel “Silent Spring”

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    people feel toward animal experiments‚ testing on animals is nonetheless the morally right thing to do. To moderate unnecessary cruelty‚ ethical approval has to be given before the execution of an animal experiment2. This is a small step towards biocentric or zoocentric ethics‚ admitting that animals have an intrinsic value and a certain restricted right to well-being. However‚ as long as the researcher can argue that the experiments have a scientific purpose and have the potential

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