SREL Reprint #3164

Environmental Literacy

J. Whitfield Gibbons

Savannah River Ecology Lab, University of Georgia, Drawer E, Aiken, SC 29802, USA

Abstract: Environmental literacy means that an individual or population has the ability to read about, write about, and comprehend environmental issues. . . The benefits of having an environmentally literate public are obvious and great. These benefits are worth the collective costs that all of us — researchers, teachers, students, and citizens — must expend to achieve them.

SREL Reprint #3164

Gibbons, J. W. 2001. Environmental Literacy. pp. 277-286. In: G. W. and T. L. Barrett (Eds.). Holistic Science: the Evolution of the Georgia Institute of Ecology (1940-2000). Taylor and Francis, New York, NY.

This information was provided by the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (srel.uga.edu).