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.