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)
- IX Perspectives for environmental literacy
- Glossary
- References
- Index
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
- 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
Key questions (see key questions 1–3 of the Preamble)
What aspects of the key questions are answered in this part?
Q1 How do human systems represent, store and retrieve information about their environment?
Q2 How can we identify the drivers of human behavior?
Q3 What manmade environmental impacts can/should we change? What rebound effects can emerge from intervening? How can society generate appropriate knowledge and strategies for sustaining the Earth’s environments?
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- Environmental Literacy in Science and SocietyFrom Knowledge to Decisions, pp. 1 - 2Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011