A Retrospective Approach to Pro-Environmental Behavior from Environmental Education: An Alternative from Sustainable Development

Ruth Zárate Rueda (), Yolima Ivonne Beltrán Villamizar () and Luis Eduardo Becerra Ardila
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Ruth Zárate Rueda: School of Social Work, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga 680006, Colombia
Yolima Ivonne Beltrán Villamizar: School of Education, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga 680006, Colombia
Luis Eduardo Becerra Ardila: School of Industrial and Business Studies, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga 680006, Colombia

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 6, 1-19

Abstract: This paper is a retrospective over a 20-year period that aims to show the research techniques on pro-environmental behavior and the incidence of Sustainable Development (SD) in Environmental Education (EE). Network bibliometrics was conducted, integrating social media analysis through the implementation of the tools VOSviewer, UCINET and the Biblioshiny application of the R-tool, together with the analysis of content of the documents cited and co-cited in the literature. The findings signal influential authors in citation and co-citation networks; they also point to topics developed emerging in the co-words network. The conclusion shows there is a gap between the acquisition of pro-environmental knowledge and behavior, a fact that shows the need to create pedagogical and participatory alternatives in EE for the resolution of ecological dilemmas. Likewise, with the incorporation of SD in education, it is inferred that higher education is fundamental in guaranteeing sustainability.

Keywords: pro-environmental behavior; sustainable development; environmental education; bibliometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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