Applying the HES-framework

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Authors

  • Roland W. Scholz
  • Claudia R. Binder
  • Daniel Lang
  • Timo Smieszek
  • Michael Stauffacher

Chapter overview Environmental literacy and coping with complex environmental problems can be viewed as knowledge-and experience-based artwork. A major challenge of research on human-environment systems (HES) is to define the guiding question and system boundaries adequately, to reduce complexity by identifying the relevant actors and the relevant human and environmental system, gaining access to potentially conflicting drivers in and between human systems, and identifying with and coping feedback loops linked to decisions. This chapter shows by four exemplary cases how the HES framework can be utilized for this venture.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEnvironmental Literacy in Science and Society : From Knowledge to Decisions
EditorsRoland W. Scholz
Number of pages46
Place of PublicationCambridge
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date01.01.2011
Pages463-508
ISBN (print)978-0-521-19271-2
ISBN (electronic)9780511921520
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.01.2011
Externally publishedYes