Abstract

Pollution issues, anthropogenic climate change, and biodiversity declines, formerly local in scope, accumulate to threaten crossing planetary boundaries and tipping Earth’s system to an uninhabitable state. The human-environment identity is an unsung cornerstone of geography that can educate upcoming generations of citizens about trends over time, current conditions, and pathways to a more desirable future. The geography education community should develop and apply human-environment thinking through tools like timelines and big ideas. We hope the geographic thoughts presented herein will provide a scholarly rationale for K-12 educators to consider as they design curricula to share human-environment geography with students.

摘要

污染问题、人为气候变化和生物多样性下降，以前只是局部范围，累积起来威胁着跨越行星边界并将地球系统推向不适合居住的状态。人类与环境的身份是地理学的无名基石，它可以教育下一代公民随着时间的推移、当前条件和通往更理想未来的途径。地理教育界应该通过时间线和大创意等工具开发和应用人类环境思维。我们希望本文介绍的地理思想能为 K-12 教育工作者在设计课程以与学生分享人文环境地理时提供学术依据。