TY - CHAP

T1 - The HES framework

AU - Scholz, Roland W.

AU - Binder, Claudia R.

AU - Lang, Daniel

PY - 2011/1/1

Y1 - 2011/1/1

N2 - Chapter overview Chapter overview In the spirit of cultivating environmental literacy we present the human-environment systems (HES) framework as a practical way to cope with the complexity of human-environment relationships. Its design and our suggestions for its use assume that most environmental problems are caused largely by human activities, a view that could be called the anthropocenic redefinition of the environment. Our unveiling of the HES framework describes how it is a structure-process template or methodological guide for research about HES. The HES framework highlights how the HES Postulates offer principles that foster a comprehensive analysis of HES. Next we describe how the HES framework offers principles for environmental research and transdisciplinary processes. After an initial phase of formulating a guiding question and defining system boundaries, a first step is to conduct an analysis of the environmental situation (as stated by the Environment-first Postulate P7), which is a typical subject of transdisciplinary processes.

AB - Chapter overview Chapter overview In the spirit of cultivating environmental literacy we present the human-environment systems (HES) framework as a practical way to cope with the complexity of human-environment relationships. Its design and our suggestions for its use assume that most environmental problems are caused largely by human activities, a view that could be called the anthropocenic redefinition of the environment. Our unveiling of the HES framework describes how it is a structure-process template or methodological guide for research about HES. The HES framework highlights how the HES Postulates offer principles that foster a comprehensive analysis of HES. Next we describe how the HES framework offers principles for environmental research and transdisciplinary processes. After an initial phase of formulating a guiding question and defining system boundaries, a first step is to conduct an analysis of the environmental situation (as stated by the Environment-first Postulate P7), which is a typical subject of transdisciplinary processes.

KW - Ecosystems Research

KW - Sustainability Science

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84892522150&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1017/CBO9780511921520.020

DO - 10.1017/CBO9780511921520.020

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-0-521-19271-2

SP - 453

EP - 462

BT - Environmental Literacy in Science and Society

A2 - Scholz, Roland W.

PB - Cambridge University Press

CY - Cambridge

ER -