Environmental Literacy in Science and Society – From Knowledge to Decisions

List of boxes Overview Roadmap to environmental literacy Part I. Invention of the Environment: Origins, Transdisciplinarity, and Theory of Science Perspectives: 1. What knowledge about what environment? 2. From environmental literacy to transdisciplinarity 3. Basic epistemological assumptions Part II. History of Biological Knowledge: 4. Emerging knowledge on morphology, ecology, and evolution 5. From molecular structures to ecosystems Part III. Contributions of Psychology: 6. Psychological approaches to human-environment interactions 7. Drivers of individual behavior and action Part IV. Contributions of Sociology: 8. Traditional sociological approaches to human-environment interactions 9. Modern sociological approaches to human-environment interactions Part V. Contributions of Economics: 10. Origins of economic thinking and the environment 11. Contemporary economic theories dealing with the environment Part VI. Contributions of Industrial Ecology: 12. The emergence of industrial ecology 13. Industrial agents and global biogeochemical dynamics Part VII. Beyond Disciplines and Sciences: 14. Integrated systems modeling of complex human-environment systems Roland W. Scholz, Justus Gallati, Quang Bao Le and Roman Seidl 15. Transdisciplinarity - a tool for environmental literacy Part VIII. A Framework for Investigating Human-Environment Systems (HES): 16. The HES postulates 17. The HES framework Roland W. Scholz, Claudia R. Binder and Daniel J. Lang 18. Applying the HES framework Roland W. Scholz, Claudia R. Binder, Daniel J. Lang, Timo Smieszek and Michael Stauffacher 19. Comparing the HES framework with alternative approaches Roland W. Scholz and Fridolin Brand Part IX. Perspectives for Environmental Literacy: 20. New horizons: environmental and sustainability sciences Glossary References Index.