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MEIRA CARTEA, Pablo Ángel. Global environmental issues and environmental education: An approach from the social representations of climate change. Rev. de Inv. Educ. [online]. 2013, vol.6, n.3, pp.29-64. ISSN 1997-4043.

ABSTRACT This paper argues the importance that can and has social representations for Environmental Education. For this, the article makes some conceptual and theoretical dimensions that clarify and explain the idea of social representation. Also, it deepens into the social representations that are being formed-and how they may be forming-in Western societies on a specific domain (or subdomain) of environmental problems: problems that have a scale and clearly planetary and global reach. In this category or domain can be considered as environmental disturbances: degradation ozone layer, climate change and, somewhat less clear, others such as biodiversity loss, acid rain, deforestation, etc. Finally, it develops some comments and ideas about the representational perspective on global environmental issues for Environmental Education.

Keywords : Environmental education; social representation; global environmental issue.

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