Educación ambiental. Trinta anos de evolución, extensión e diversificación en Catalunya

Abstract

This article is part of the third edition of “Natura, us o abús? Llibre Blanc” (2018-2019), a collective and constructive work, a reference in the world of management and conservation of Catalan natural heritage. Its first edition (1976) was a forerunner text, which put on the table environmental issues and it could be considered the first major environmental diagnosis in the country. At the time when the second edition of this Whit Paper was published (1988), environmental education (EE) was a subject that had only been talked about for a decade in Catalonia. During these years, there has been a great expansion of the EE, as well as a remarkable evolution and diversification. This article attempts to offer a necessarily incomplete and not exhaustive panoramic of the Catalan EE and its evolution in the last three decades. We introduce it with references to the international context and to the different models of EE, we appraise the work done in different areas and, as a result, we identify sixty challenges that suggest aspects to improve on and paths to help us move forward.