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A primary aim of environmental education is to promote environmental values. Significant life experiences (SLE) are a powerful, fast and long-lasting way to achieve this objective, but they have received little scholarly attention thus far. As examples to help us characterize SLE and understand their function, the cases of three well-known environm...
The knowledge of biodiversity within an area is vital if we want to develop adequate conservation strategies. Biosphere Reserves are purposefully established for the sustainable use of their resources, and therefore their biodiversity should be well known. We compared and evaluated information available for Mexican Biosphere Reserves on threatened...
To achieve meaningful sustainable development, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) should avoid the net losses in the environment resource base. But EIA practice does not always avoid the losses caused by the implementation of the projects under EIA regulation. Some environmental impacts are, simply, admitted, even without enforcing any form of c...
Landscape fragmentation caused by the main transport infrastructure network in Navarra (north of Spain) is analysed on both regional and local scales. Regional scale analysis identifies the overloaded zones (cloverleaves and corridors) and the territorial imbalance due to transportation infrastructures. In order to achieve an holistic approach, thi...
El daño ambiental y la injusticia social son dos rasgos característicos del mundo contemporáneo. Ambos evidencian una falta de respeto hacia los valores naturales y humanos que la realidad, per se, posee. El descubrimiento de estos valores puede constituir una oportunidad para promover cambios de conducta que contribuyan a lograr una cultura más so...
Global environmental quality decline builds up through innumerable decisions at many scales that cause damage to ecological and social values. Environmental assessment (EA) is a relevant decision-making framework in this sense. Besides its technical role, EA has a cultural side we should consider in the pursuit of sustainable societies. Despite its...
RESUMEN Ante los indicadores de insostenibilidad ambiental y social, se busca un enfoque educativo eficaz que contribuya a revertirla. A tal efecto, se propone una educación moral, que no se centre tanto en contenidos como en facili-tar que cada estudiante aprenda a buscarlos, hacerlos propios y los traduzca en compromisos de conducta personal. La...
La sensibilidad contemporánea por el medio ambiente forma parte desde hace décadas del conjunto de rasgos culturales crecientes del mundo desarrollado. No llega, en cambio, a ser prevalente en las conductas, como se manifiesta particularmente en múltiples aspectos del consumismo que dañan el medio. En su desarrollo y presencia cultural contemporáne...
La presente investigación tiene por objeto analizar el tratamiento que recibe el paisaje en los libros de texto de las materias de Ciencias Sociales y Geografía e Historia, correspondientes, respectivamente, al contexto normativo vigente (LOMCE) y a su predecesor (LOE). Los resultados apuntan a que el estudio del paisaje no ha variado significativa...
El Convenio Europeo del Paisaje (2000) reconoció la necesidad de desarrollar propuestas formativas y de sensibilización en materia de paisaje, encaminadas a lograr una ciudadanía concienciada y activa. Por este motivo, es adecuado conocer las ideas previas sobre paisaje de los ciudadanos, para, a partir de éstas, diseñar propuestas que respondan a...
Esta investigación tiene por objeto conocer cómo
se aborda el estudio del paisaje en las materias de
Ciencias de la Naturaleza y Biología y Geología que
se imparten en Educación Secundaria Obligatoria en
España. Para ello se realizó un análisis comparativo
de los contenidos sobre paisaje presentes tanto en
los libros de texto del contexto normativo...
El Convenio Europeo del Paisaje, celebrado en el año 2000 en respuesta a la creciente preocupación por la pérdida de los paisajes europeos, incidió en la necesidad e importancia de educar y sensibilizar a la ciudadanía en materia de paisaje. La presente investigación tiene por objeto abordar el estudio de la educación paisajística en el contexto de...
This book collects the main outcomes that were generated during the implementation of the LIFE+RESPIRA project (LIFE13 ENV/ES/000417), carried out in the city of Pamplona, Navarra, Spain. The research was conducted by a cross-functional team made up of more than 30 researchers belonging to three entities: The University of Navarra, the Centre for E...
La investigación que aquí se presenta tiene por objeto explorar el potencial de los Equipamientos de Educación Ambiental como espacios de aprendizaje del paisaje y de los contenidos que esta compleja realidad social y territorial engloba. En primer lugar, se exponen las razones por las que el paisaje puede contribuir positivamente a la formación am...
Esta comunicación señala algunas causas ético-culturales que limitan la eficacia de la Evaluación Ambiental tal y como se lleva a cabo en la actualidad. Entre ellas se destacan la concepción del grado de protección ambiental a lograr, la definición del criterio desde el que evaluar la eficacia del procedimiento administrativo, la tolerancia con la...
Este documento recoge algunas reflexiones y conclusiones alimentadas en la Universidad de Navarra en torno a la Encíclica Laudato si’, particularmente tratadas en la jornada «Ecología y Desarrollo Humano. Conversaciones sobre Laudato si’», que tuvo lugar el 18 de marzo de 2016 en Pamplona. No pretende ser un documento teórico de fin de trayecto ni...
During the past decades, the unwholesome human behaviour on nature has
evinced an environmental and anthropological crisis, largely rooted in erroneous
and inherited understandings of modernity. The causes that have estranged human
beings from their environment are complex and varied, but they necessarily need to
be addressed by education. The deta...
Since the first international conventions on environmental conservation held in the seventies, the important role of education, both to foster a respectful and responsible behavior towards nature and society, and to favor the adoption of a fair and sustainable development model, has been emphasized repeatedly. In this context, the study presented b...
[This article is available in Spanish (pp. 562-571) and English (pp. 572-582)]
The concern for landscape loss experienced a turning point in 2000 when the European Landscape Convention was held. In this meeting, some of the established objectives were aimed at proper landscape management and protection. In addition, special focus was placed on the...
Our culture has developed an environmental awareness that has to meet many
educative challenges. Environmental choices may build us up… or wreck us, individually
and collectively, damaging both our bodies and cultures, even our landscapes.
There is a shared link between human beings and nature, made out of both humanity
and naturalness. The value a...
The knowledge of biodiversity, a critical factor to develop proper conservation strategies, relies in no small part in adequate assessment of species occurrence and diversity within an area. Sources of information are diverse but how reliable are they? This study sets to find what information gaps might potentially exist between data sources, and a...
The main scientific bibliography addressing the rationale behind ecological compensation is reviewed in order to examine general guidelines. This contains interesting general guidance on how to implement compensation, and provides the basis for future developments in compensation practice. On this basis, we propose a further step in compensation pr...
To reduce ecological impacts caused by development projects, avoidance, minimization and compensation techniques have to be taken together into consideration along Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedures. This paper explores the particular role that ecological compensation has had in recent road and railway EIA procedures in Spain, as seen...
Road construction and improvement have long been studied as precursors of new development. The environmental impact assessment (EIA) of roads needs to gauge the phenomenon as long as possible, particularly across mountainous areas, because new urban and industrial uses on these valuable and fragile environments may cause significant impacts that sh...
Simultaneous monitoring of wild mammal roadkills and underpass use was conducted for two years along two neighboring highways in Navarre (Northern Spain). The A-15 highway runs across a rugged, more natural terrain than the A-10 highway, which runs along a flat, mainly agrarian valley. Tunnels, viaducts and cut rock walls occur exclusively in A-15....
A research on wildlife road-kills, mostly medium-sized mammals, has been conducted for two years along two highways (namely A-15 and A-10) in the Euro Siberian area of northwest Navarre (Northern Spain) between the westernmost side of the Pyrenees and the Basque Mountains. The study intended to find out a link between their distribution and the str...
The fragmenting effects of roads on the environment can be examined both locally and for targeted wildlife species but also studied from wider non-specific perspectives. Focusing on the layout of the road network, a set of methodologies to display and analyze structural fragmentation by roads have been developed, and specifically applied to the Aut...
Road construction generally reduces the ecological value of the environment. To recover it, the value of the residual ecological impacts should be counterbalanced by compensation measures within the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedure. Ecological valuation and impact valuation are central to EIA performance. As long as residual impacts...
To detect differences in the information available on freshwater fish species found in Mexican biosphere reserves, the number of species considered in three sources of information: management programmes, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and the scientific literature were compared. Additionally, management actions for the reserves wer...
The consideration of non-native freshwater fish species in the management plans of 18 Biosphere Reserves is evaluated. Additionally, impacts caused by introduced freshwater fish species are described. Some measures to alleviate the ecological effects of fish species introductions are proposed, while paying attention to local development as well. Th...
En este trabajo se evalúa la consideración de los peces dulceacuícolas alóctonos en los planes de gestión de 18 Reservas de Biosfera. Además, se describen los impactos causados por los peces dulceacuícolas introducidos. Se proponen algunas medidas para aliviar los efectos ecológicos de la introducción de peces, a la vez que se tiene en cuenta el de...
Complete manual-guide of natural parameters using for environmental studies and ecological planning
Ecotones may play an important role in preventing desertification by ensuring a high degree of biodiversity, thus enhancing soil processes which are mainly mediated by soil fauna and, therefore, soil creation and structuration. In order to detect whether this effect exists in selected desertification-prone Mediterranean areas, the across-groups div...
