Environmental literacy in science and society : from knowledge to decisions / Roland W. Scholz ; some chapters are coauthored by Claudia R. Binder [and others].

"In an era where humans affect virtually all of the earth's processes, questions arise about whether we have sufficient knowledge of human-environment interactions. How can we sustain the Earth's ecosystems to prevent collapses and what roles should practitioners and scientists play in this process?...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scholz, Roland W.
Other Authors: Binder, Claudia R.
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Physical Description:xxiii, 631 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a What knowledge about what environment? -- From environmental literacy to transdisciplinarity -- Basic epistemological assumptions -- Emerging knowledge on morphology, ecology, and evolution -- From molecular structures to ecosystems -- Psychological approaches to human-environment interactions -- Drivers of individual behavior -- Traditional sociological approaches to human-environment interactions -- Modern sociological approaches to human-environment interactions -- Origins of economic thinking and the environment -- Contemporary economic theories dealing with the environment -- The emergence of industrial ecology -- Industrial agents and global biogeochemical dynamics -- Integrated systems modeling of complex human-environment systems / Roland W. Scholz, Justus Gallati, Quang Bao Le and Roman Seidl -- Transdisciplinarity for environmental literacy -- A framework for investigating human-environment systems (HES). The HES postulates -- A framework for investigating human-environment systems (HES). The HES framework / Roland W. Scholz, Claudia R. Binder, and Daniel J. Lang -- A framework for investigating human-environment systems (HES). Applying the HES framework / Roland W. Scholz, Claudia R. Binder, Daniel J. Lang, Timo Smieszek, and Michael Stauffacher -- A framework for investigating human-environment systems (HES). Comparing the HES framework with alternative approaches / Roland W. Scholz and Fridolin Brand -- New horizons : environmental and sustainability sciences. 
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