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
19 - Comparing the HES framework with alternative approaches
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
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, environmental sciences and sustainability research efforts have been to conceptualize human–environment systems (HES). To provide an HES framework is one of the main objectives of environmental literacy, and of the Postulates and ideas put forward in Chapters 16 and 17. In this chapter we discuss the HES framework within the context of the international research community and compare it to three alternative approaches: the resilience approach, the Vienna social metabolism, and the Dutch transition management. The objective of this section is to show the strengths and limitations of the HES framework and the alternative approaches. Furthermore, this chapter highlights the value of the HES framework for both an academic perspective, to support better analysis of HES, and from an applied project or transdisciplinary perspective, to promote inclusive communication and collaboration between academia, legitimized decision-makers, and stakeholders.
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- Environmental Literacy in Science and SocietyFrom Knowledge to Decisions, pp. 509 - 522Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011