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1.5 ENEC Definitions: EC, EEC and ECn
The European Network for Environmental Citizenship (ENEC) has set the following definitions for ‘Environmental Citizenship’ (EC), ‘Education for Environmental
Citizenship’ (EEC) and ‘Environmental Citizen’ (ECn). These definitions were
agreed after discussions from more than 120 researchers and scholars from 37 countries. The ENEC’s definitions provide a concrete base on the conceptualisation of
the Environmental Citizenship for twenty-first-century education.
‘Environmental Citizenship’ is defined as the responsible pro-environmental
behaviour of citizens who act and participate in society as agents of change in the
private and public sphere on a local, national and global scale, through individual
and collective actions in the direction of solving contemporary environmental problems, preventing the creation of new environmental problems, achieving sustainability and developing a healthy relationship with nature. ‘Environmental
Citizenship’ includes the practise of environmental rights and duties, as well as the
identification of the underlying structural causes of environmental degradation and
environmental problems and the development of the willingness and the competences for critical and active engagement and civic participation to address those
structural causes and to act individually and collectively within democratic means,
taking into account inter- and intra-generational justice (ENEC 2018a).
‘Education for Environmental Citizenship’ is defined as the type of education
that cultivates a coherent and adequate body of knowledge as well as the necessary
skills, values, attitudes and competences that an Environmental Citizen should be
equipped with in order to be able to act and participate in society as an agent of
change in the private and public sphere on a local, national and global scale, through
individual and collective actions in the direction of solving contemporary environmental problems, preventing the creation of new environmental problems, achieving sustainability as well as developing a healthy relationship with nature. ‘Education
for Environmental Citizenship’ is important to empower citizens to practise their
environmental rights and duties, as well as to identify the underlying structural
causes of environmental degradation and environmental problems, develop the willingness and the competences for critical and active engagement and civic participation to address those structural causes and act individually and collectively within
democratic means, taking into account the inter- and intra-generational justice
(ENEC 2018b).
‘Environmental Citizen’ is defined as the citizen who has a coherent and adequate body of knowledge as well as the necessary skills, values, attitudes and competences in order to be able to act and participate in society as an agent of change in
the private and public sphere on a local, national and global scale, through individual and collective actions in the direction of solving contemporary environmental
problems, preventing the creation of new environmental problems, achieving sustainability as well as developing a healthy relationship with nature. An ‘Environmental
Citizen’ is a citizen who practises his/her environmental rights and duties, is able to
identify the underlying structural causes of environmental degradation and
A. Ch. Hadjichambis and P. Reis
1.5 ENEC Definitions: EC, EEC and ECn
The European Network for Environmental Citizenship (ENEC) has set the following definitions for ‘Environmental Citizenship’ (EC), ‘Education for Environmental
Citizenship’ (EEC) and ‘Environmental Citizen’ (ECn). These definitions were
agreed after discussions from more than 120 researchers and scholars from 37 countries. The ENEC’s definitions provide a concrete base on the conceptualisation of
the Environmental Citizenship for twenty-first-century education.
‘Environmental Citizenship’ is defined as the responsible pro-environmental
behaviour of citizens who act and participate in society as agents of change in the
private and public sphere on a local, national and global scale, through individual
and collective actions in the direction of solving contemporary environmental problems, preventing the creation of new environmental problems, achieving sustainability and developing a healthy relationship with nature. ‘Environmental
Citizenship’ includes the practise of environmental rights and duties, as well as the
identification of the underlying structural causes of environmental degradation and
environmental problems and the development of the willingness and the competences for critical and active engagement and civic participation to address those
structural causes and to act individually and collectively within democratic means,
taking into account inter- and intra-generational justice (ENEC 2018a).
‘Education for Environmental Citizenship’ is defined as the type of education
that cultivates a coherent and adequate body of knowledge as well as the necessary
skills, values, attitudes and competences that an Environmental Citizen should be
equipped with in order to be able to act and participate in society as an agent of
change in the private and public sphere on a local, national and global scale, through
individual and collective actions in the direction of solving contemporary environmental problems, preventing the creation of new environmental problems, achieving sustainability as well as developing a healthy relationship with nature. ‘Education
for Environmental Citizenship’ is important to empower citizens to practise their
environmental rights and duties, as well as to identify the underlying structural
causes of environmental degradation and environmental problems, develop the willingness and the competences for critical and active engagement and civic participation to address those structural causes and act individually and collectively within
democratic means, taking into account the inter- and intra-generational justice
(ENEC 2018b).
‘Environmental Citizen’ is defined as the citizen who has a coherent and adequate body of knowledge as well as the necessary skills, values, attitudes and competences in order to be able to act and participate in society as an agent of change in
the private and public sphere on a local, national and global scale, through individual and collective actions in the direction of solving contemporary environmental
problems, preventing the creation of new environmental problems, achieving sustainability as well as developing a healthy relationship with nature. An ‘Environmental
Citizen’ is a citizen who practises his/her environmental rights and duties, is able to
identify the underlying structural causes of environmental degradation and
A. Ch. Hadjichambis and P. Reis