What Are the Factors That Have Contributed to the Growth

question 52

Essay

What are the factors that have contributed to the growth of, interest in and concern for the environment? How does the importance of the environmental movement vary across different markets and economic systems?

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Definitions:

Mathematical Abilities

The capacity to understand, manipulate, and solve numerical and logical problems.

Autonomous Moral Principles

Principles of right action that individuals adopt and follow voluntarily and independently, often based on an internal sense of justice and ethics.

Conventional Role

A socially accepted behavior pattern or responsibility expected from a person in a specific position or status in society.

Preconventional Morality

First level of Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning in which control is external and rules are obeyed in order to gain rewards or avoid punishment or out of self-interest.