Environmental Sciences Proceedings, Volume 14, Issue 1

The human food system is complex; has significant social and environmental impact; and raises questions around identity and culture. This mix of individual, collective, public, private and environmental concerns, positions Environmental Citizenship c...

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Education for environmental citizenship (EEC) is a crucial component of the effort to promote societies that are aware of sustainable lifestyles and able and motivated to adopt them, and such education is acknowledged as a key component within the di...

The aim is to evaluate the effect of a sustainable development-oriented course on the environmental citizenship attributes of undergraduate students at a technical university. We discuss the pedagogical and didactic aspects of the course and its link...

Exploring environmental citizenship is very important in the context of environmental education and sustainability. Global environmental problems require citizens who are active, critical-minded and able to act as agents of change for society and the...

The social and environmental issues facing society call for changes in educational approaches. The massive use of video as a resource for dissemination on social networks calls for further analysis and reflection in education. A video analysis activi...

Environmental citizenship has become an integral element of civic and citizenship education curricula, both globally and at the European level. Previous analysis provided important evidence that environmental-citizenship education practice in Nordic...

Albania has only begun to address environmental and sustainable development issues as recently as the 1990s. The environment has received the attention of consecutive governments that drafted the relevant legislation based on EU experience, ratified...

The documentary is one of the genres most commonly used in Environmental Journalism to inform, educate and raise awareness among citizens about the conservation and defense of the environment. The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of doc...

Environmental education, as defined by Hadjichambis et al., is effective when it combines knowledge types as well as organizational and management forms. Formal, informal and non-formal education are mediators of other types of knowledge, and partici...

This paper presents various educational interventions aimed at promoting environmental citizenship, which were developed in three different European countries (Sweden, Belgium and Spain). The interventions differ in context, target group and educatio...

This paper proposes elements for the re-signification of the concept of competences from the human capabilities approach proposed by Martha Nussbaum, within the framework of the proposal of education for environmental citizenship developed by the Eur...

Scholarly attention has recently been increasingly focused on the concept of action competence for sustainability and its importance to promote environmental citizenship. Still, knowledge about the effects of sustainability education (SE) as an appro...

The current generation of high school students is faced with a vast torrent of information regarding current events and issues, and environmental issues tend to be among the more salient topics. The quality and veracity of the contents of the informa...

This symposium brings together social science energy researchers working on gaining an understanding of the various social, economic and political dimensions of energy citizenship and how energy citizenship affects the clean-energy transition process...

This work deals with the proposal of a methodology for the survey of citizens’ attitudes in relation to their citizenship in light of the economic dimensions of environmental citizenship (EC). This is especially beneficial for university studen...

To enable students to deal with sustainability issues, science education needs to provide tools to navigate sustainability issues, thus fostering Environmental Citizenship (EC) [...]

One of the dimensions of environmental citizenship is related to the understanding of the structural causes of environmental degradation and it also emphasizes the empowerment of citizens. With increasing threats from climate change impacts, the Unit...

The world is facing an unprecedented global environmental crisis as environmental problems have been exacerbated in recent decades. Climate crisis, plastic pollution, and the loss of biodiversity are just some of the many environmental issues we are...

We describe the results of the Italian piloting of Change the Story, a cross-European project that takes an innovative look at climate and citizenship education. The project developed resources to support teachers and pupils in creating digital narra...

This paper discusses the adoption of the urban cycling culture in a northern provincial town of Joensuu by analysing interviews of cyclists and the opinion letters from the local newspaper in the centre/periphery frameworks. It highlights the spatial...

Citizen science (CS) has shown tremendous popularity in recent years; however, there is still a lack of understanding of important aspects that determine citizens’ participation and involvement in CS initiatives. Although CS initiatives could s...