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
- 20 New horizons: environmental and sustainability sciences
- Glossary
- References
- Index
20 - New horizons: environmental and sustainability sciences
from IX - Perspectives for environmental literacy
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
- 20 New horizons: environmental and sustainability sciences
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
Writing about the challenges of and possibilities for environmental literacy has been a journey of discovery and this book chronicles the learning we experienced along the way.
Our first lessons came from the academic disciplines of biology, psychology, sociology, economics, and industrial ecology. In this chapter we review what these disciplines offer and where they, as individual disciplines, fall short in supporting environmental literacy. Given that these disciplinary realms, on their own, provide an incomplete picture about what is needed to cope with human and environmental systems (HES), we explored what it means to offer meaningful insights and solutions to environmental issues and problems. A major step was that we took a different view on the environment, which we called the anthropocenically redefined environment.
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- Environmental Literacy in Science and SocietyFrom Knowledge to Decisions, pp. 525 - 536Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011