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
- 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)
- 16 The HES Postulates
- 17 The HES framework
- 18 Applying the HES framework
- 19 Comparing the HES framework with alternative approaches
- IX Perspectives for environmental literacy
- Glossary
- References
- Index
18 - Applying the HES framework
from VIII - A framework for investigating human–environment systems (HES)
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
- 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)
- 16 The HES Postulates
- 17 The HES framework
- 18 Applying the HES framework
- 19 Comparing the HES framework with alternative approaches
- IX Perspectives for environmental literacy
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter overview
Environmental literacy and coping with complex environmental problems can be viewed as knowledge- and experience-based artwork.
A major challenge of research on human–environment systems (HES) is to define the guiding question and system boundaries adequately, to reduce complexity by identifying the relevant actors and the relevant human and environmental system, gaining access to potentially conflicting drivers in and between human systems, and identifying with and coping feedback loops linked to decisions. This chapter shows by four exemplary cases how the HES framework can be utilized for this venture.
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- Environmental Literacy in Science and SocietyFrom Knowledge to Decisions, pp. 463 - 508Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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