A Literature Review on Facade Greening: How Research Findings May Be Used to Promote Sustainability and Climate Literacy in School

Annalisa Pacini, Hans Georg Edelmann, Jörg Großschedl and Kirsten Schlüter
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Annalisa Pacini: Institute of Biology Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Cologne, D-50931 Cologne, Germany
Hans Georg Edelmann: Institute of Biology Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Cologne, D-50931 Cologne, Germany
Jörg Großschedl: Institute of Biology Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Cologne, D-50931 Cologne, Germany
Kirsten Schlüter: Institute of Biology Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Cologne, D-50931 Cologne, Germany

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 8, 1-27

Abstract: The promotion of Climate Literacy is a central concern of our time. To achieve this ability, one can draw on different content areas. One possible area is Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), such as Vertical Greening Systems (VGS), and their effectiveness in mitigating climate change. However, VGS is not yet an established topic in environmental education, even if the pro-environmental effectiveness of VGS has been proven from a scientific point of view and this topic is close to everyday life. To facilitate the transfer of knowledge from research to school, this paper presents an example of a possible procedure. This procedure starts with a narrative review of the scientific literature on VGS. Then, the main results of this review are related to the Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Literacy, and general educational goals to capture its educational relevance. Finally, a flow chart for a teaching sequence is developed, with the phase sequence derived from the performed narrative review. Thus, a parallelism between the structure of a scientific review and an action-oriented environmental education becomes visible. To what extent this parallelization may be generalized, and whether teaching based on it is effective, will have to be tested.

Keywords: green facades; vertical greenery system; climate literacy; climate change; education for sustainability; knowledge transfer; nature-based learning; review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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