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Chapter 6
Values, Beliefs and Environmental
Citizenship
Audra Balundė, Mykolas Simas Poškus, Lina Jovarauskaitė, Ariel Sarid,
Georgios Farangitakis, Marie-Christine Knippels,
Andreas Ch. Hadjichambis, and Demetra Paraskeva-Hadjichambi
6.1 Introduction
Persuading people to become Environmental Citizens is crucial for addressing current environmental issues. It is a necessary condition for sustainability and has been
identified as one of the EU’s priorities (EEA 2015; EU 2013; Dobson 2007).
Educating individuals and communities to become Environmental Citizens is one of
the challenges of our time if we are to achieve sustainable growth and preserve our
natural environments. Environmental Citizenship as a complex of actions and
behaviour is based on the acknowledgement of the balance of rights and responsibilities in fairer human-environment bonds, which tend to transcend national and
generational boundaries (ENEC 2018). Specifically, Environmental Citizenship
A. Balundė (*) · M. S. Poškus · L. Jovarauskaitė
Institute of Psychology, Environmental Psychology Research Centre, Mykolas Romeris
University, Vilnius, Lithuania
e-mail: audra.balunde@mruni.eu; mykolas_poskus@mruni.eu; lina.jovarauskaite@mruni.eu
A. Sarid
Beit Berl College, Department of Education, Beit Berl, Israel
e-mail: ariels@beitberl.ac.il
G. Farangitakis
Argyroupolis Center for Environmental Education, Argyroupolis, Greece
e-mail: secretary@kpea.gr
M.-C. Knippels
Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
e-mail: M.C.P.J.Knippels@uu.nl
A. Ch. Hadjichambis · D. Paraskeva-Hadjichambi
Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture, Nicosia, Cyprus
Cyprus Centre for Environmental Research and Education, CYCERE, Lemesos, Cyprus
e-mail: a.chadjihambi@cytanet.com.cy; demhad@ucy.ac.cy
© 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_6
Chapter 6
Values, Beliefs and Environmental
Citizenship
Audra Balundė, Mykolas Simas Poškus, Lina Jovarauskaitė, Ariel Sarid,
Georgios Farangitakis, Marie-Christine Knippels,
Andreas Ch. Hadjichambis, and Demetra Paraskeva-Hadjichambi
6.1 Introduction
Persuading people to become Environmental Citizens is crucial for addressing current environmental issues. It is a necessary condition for sustainability and has been
identified as one of the EU’s priorities (EEA 2015; EU 2013; Dobson 2007).
Educating individuals and communities to become Environmental Citizens is one of
the challenges of our time if we are to achieve sustainable growth and preserve our
natural environments. Environmental Citizenship as a complex of actions and
behaviour is based on the acknowledgement of the balance of rights and responsibilities in fairer human-environment bonds, which tend to transcend national and
generational boundaries (ENEC 2018). Specifically, Environmental Citizenship
A. Balundė (*) · M. S. Poškus · L. Jovarauskaitė
Institute of Psychology, Environmental Psychology Research Centre, Mykolas Romeris
University, Vilnius, Lithuania
e-mail: audra.balunde@mruni.eu; mykolas_poskus@mruni.eu; lina.jovarauskaite@mruni.eu
A. Sarid
Beit Berl College, Department of Education, Beit Berl, Israel
e-mail: ariels@beitberl.ac.il
G. Farangitakis
Argyroupolis Center for Environmental Education, Argyroupolis, Greece
e-mail: secretary@kpea.gr
M.-C. Knippels
Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
e-mail: M.C.P.J.Knippels@uu.nl
A. Ch. Hadjichambis · D. Paraskeva-Hadjichambi
Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture, Nicosia, Cyprus
Cyprus Centre for Environmental Research and Education, CYCERE, Lemesos, Cyprus
e-mail: a.chadjihambi@cytanet.com.cy; demhad@ucy.ac.cy
© 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_6