Abstract
The purpose of this article is to review interdisciplinary systemic
frameworks of environmental protection and evaluate their use as
tools, educational policymaking and education. We analyze the pressures-state-responses
(PSR) framework of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development, the drivers-pressures-state-impact-response (DPSIR)
framework developed in the European Environment Agency and a later
environmental political dynamics framework developed by Schroll and
Stærdahl. We then continue the discussion by introducing a comprehensive
model, labeled as the environmental protection process (EPP) framework
that can be used to analyze and teach why there are environmental
problems, what are their characteristics, and in which ways they
can be mitigated. The EPP model is used for classifying measures
of coping with environmental problems. Finally, a submodel of individual
and societal factors affecting human action is formed. Environmental
issues of transport are used as an illustrative example. We hope
to contribute a relevant way to outline a wide interdisciplinary
picture of environmental problems and solutions.
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