Ecological literacy: an assessment of the ecological knowledge and understanding of South Australian adults /
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2014
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Pitman, Sheryn Dee,
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How much do we know about nature, and who knows? The integrity of the relationship between humanity and nature is fundamental to the health and survival of our species. Throughout history a practical knowledge and understanding of the planet’s life supporting systems has been core to human survival. However, the industrialisation and urbanisation of human societies, along with rapid population growth, are features of the human-centred and human-dominated era of ‘the Anthropocene’ and are widely considered to be accompanied by increasing disconnection between human communities and nature. This has led to a concern that such changed relationships have diminished our capability to make well-informed decisions about how to live sustainably on Earth.
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University of South Australia. School of Natural and Built Environments.
School of Natural and Built Environments.
School of Natural and Built Environments.
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Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2014.
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Copyright 2014 Sheryn Dee Pitman. This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs Australia 3.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/)
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1 ethesis (xiv, 244 leaves) :
colour illustrations, 1 colour map.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-182)
colour illustrations, 1 colour map.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-182)
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