Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Boxes
- Acknowledgments
- International praise for Environmental Literacy in Science and Society
- Preamble
- Overview: roadmap to environmental literacy
- I Invention of the environment: origins, transdisciplinarity, and theory of science perspectives
- 1 What knowledge about what environment?
- 2 From environmental literacy to transdisciplinarity
- 3 Basic epistemological assumptions
- II History of mind of biological knowledge
- III Contributions of psychology
- IV Contributions of sociology
- V Contributions of economics
- VI Contributions of industrial ecology
- VII Beyond disciplines and sciences
- VIII A framework for investigating human–environment systems (HES)
- IX Perspectives for environmental literacy
- Glossary
- References
- Index
2 - From environmental literacy to transdisciplinarity
from I - Invention of the environment: origins, transdisciplinarity, and theory of science perspectives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Boxes
- Acknowledgments
- International praise for Environmental Literacy in Science and Society
- Preamble
- Overview: roadmap to environmental literacy
- I Invention of the environment: origins, transdisciplinarity, and theory of science perspectives
- 1 What knowledge about what environment?
- 2 From environmental literacy to transdisciplinarity
- 3 Basic epistemological assumptions
- II History of mind of biological knowledge
- III Contributions of psychology
- IV Contributions of sociology
- V Contributions of economics
- VI Contributions of industrial ecology
- VII Beyond disciplines and sciences
- VIII A framework for investigating human–environment systems (HES)
- IX Perspectives for environmental literacy
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter overview
This chapter defines environmental literacy and how it is related to information acquisition, becoming aware of environmental impacts, identifying possible changed actions (mitigation), anticipating rebound effects from changed actions, and becoming capable of forming a sustainable coupling of human and environmental systems.
We identify what type of epistemics (experiencing, understanding, conceptualizing, and explaining) and types of knowledge integration are at work in environmental literacy. Transdisciplinarity is briefly defined and seen as a central means of societal capacity building for sustainable transitions.
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- Environmental Literacy in Science and SocietyFrom Knowledge to Decisions, pp. 15 - 28Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011