TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scholz, Ronald W.
TI  - Environmental literacy in science and society : from knowledge to decisions
SN  - 0521183332
U1  - 304.2 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Cambridge Uni. Press
N1  - CONTENTS List of boxesix Acknowledgments  xiii Praise for the bookxv Preamble  xvii Overview: roadmap to environmental literacy  xviii Legend of the roadmapxxii Part I Invention of the environment: origins, transdisciplinarity, and theory of science perspectives 1What knowledge about what environment?3 2From environmental literacyto transdisciplinarity15 3Basic epistemological assumptions29 Part II History of mind of biological knowledge 4Emerging knowledge on morphology, ecology, and evolution45 5From molecular structures to ecosystems94 Part III Contributions of psychology 6Psychological approaches to human-environment interactions137 7Drivers of individual behavior190 Part IV Contributions of sociology 8Traditional sociological approaches to human-environment interactions 215 9Modern sociological approaches to human-environment interactions231 Part V Contributions of economics 10  Origins of economic thinking and the environment257 11  Contemporary economic theories dealing with the environment281 Part VI Contributions of industrial ecology 12 The emergence of industrial ecology307 13  Industrial agents and global biogeochemkal dynamics320 PartVII Beyond disciplines and sciences 14  Integrated systems modeling of complex human-environment systems341 Roland W. Scholz, Justus Gallati, Quang Bao Le, and Roman Seidl 15  Transdisciplinarity for environmental Part VIII A framework for investigating human-environment systems (HES) 16 The HES Postulates407 17  The HES framework453 Roland W. Scholz, Claudia R. Binder, and Daniel J. Lang 18  Applying the HES framework463 Roland W. Scholz, Claudia R. Binder, Daniel J. Lang, Timo Smieszek, and Michael Staufiacher 19 Comparing the HES framework with alternative approaches509 Roland VV. Scholz and Fridolin Brand Part IX Perspective for environmental literacy 20.New horizons: environmental and sustainability sciences  525 Glossary  537 References 551 Index  626
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