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
VII - Beyond disciplines and sciences
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)
Contributions from a systems perspective to environmental literacy
Q1 Do we need an anthropocenic (re)definition of the environment? What does the complexity of environmental systems mean? What methods do we have to represent environmental systems and their dynamics?
Q2 How can integrated modeling and transdisciplinary processes help to better understand the rationales of causation and processes of human–environment systems?
Q3 What are transdisciplinarity and transdisciplinary processes? How does transdisciplinarity supplement disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity?
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- Environmental Literacy in Science and SocietyFrom Knowledge to Decisions, pp. 339 - 340Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011