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Chapter 8
Education for Environmental Citizenship
and Responsible Environmental Behaviour
Daphne Goldman, Ralph Hansmann, Jan Činčera, Vesela Radović,
Audronė Telešienė, Aistė Balžekienė, and Jan Vávra
8.1 Introduction
Young people are growing up in a world of overwhelming environmental challenges
resulting from the declining state of the environment, which is intensifying economic
and social problems (Pe’er et al. 2013). These environmental issues are systemic –
they are interrelated and interdependent and straddle the natural and social realms.
Such a world requires a citizenry that can comprehend the complexity of environmenD. Goldman (*)
Department of Environmental Science and Agriculture, Faculty of Education,
Beit Berl College, Kfar Saba, Israel
e-mail: dafnag@netvision.net.il
R. Hansmann
Transdisciplinarity Lab (TdLab), Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS),
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
e-mail: ralph.hansmann@env.ethz.ch
J. Činčera
Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Studies,
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
e-mail: cincera@mail.muni.cz
V. Radović
Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
A. Telešienė · A. Balžekienė
Civil Society and Sustainability Research Group, Kaunas University of Technology,
Kaunas, Lithuania
e-mail: audrone.telesiene@ktu.lt; aiste.balzekiene@ktu.lt
J. Vávra
Department of Regional Management, Faculty of Economics, University of South Bohemia,
České Budějovice, Czech Republic
e-mail: jvavra@ef.jcu.cz
© The Author(s) 2020
A. Ch. Hadjichambis et al. (eds.), Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship
for 21st Century Education, Environmental Discourses in Science Education 4,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20249-1_8
Chapter 8
Education for Environmental Citizenship
and Responsible Environmental Behaviour
Daphne Goldman, Ralph Hansmann, Jan Činčera, Vesela Radović,
Audronė Telešienė, Aistė Balžekienė, and Jan Vávra
8.1 Introduction
Young people are growing up in a world of overwhelming environmental challenges
resulting from the declining state of the environment, which is intensifying economic
and social problems (Pe’er et al. 2013). These environmental issues are systemic –
they are interrelated and interdependent and straddle the natural and social realms.
Such a world requires a citizenry that can comprehend the complexity of environmenD. Goldman (*)
Department of Environmental Science and Agriculture, Faculty of Education,
Beit Berl College, Kfar Saba, Israel
e-mail: dafnag@netvision.net.il
R. Hansmann
Transdisciplinarity Lab (TdLab), Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS),
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
e-mail: ralph.hansmann@env.ethz.ch
J. Činčera
Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Studies,
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
e-mail: cincera@mail.muni.cz
V. Radović
Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
A. Telešienė · A. Balžekienė
Civil Society and Sustainability Research Group, Kaunas University of Technology,
Kaunas, Lithuania
e-mail: audrone.telesiene@ktu.lt; aiste.balzekiene@ktu.lt
J. Vávra
Department of Regional Management, Faculty of Economics, University of South Bohemia,
České Budějovice, Czech Republic
e-mail: jvavra@ef.jcu.cz
© The Author(s) 2020
A. Ch. Hadjichambis et al. (eds.), Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship
for 21st Century Education, Environmental Discourses in Science Education 4,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20249-1_8