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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

Roland W. Scholz
Roland W. Scholz
Affiliation:
ETH Zurich
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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 Society
From Knowledge to Decisions
 , pp. 15 - 28
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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