Paper short abstract:

Environmental knowledge gained through adult education enables not only to assert human and non-human rights, but also to raise awareness of climate change and verify mitigation strategies. The paper outlines aims of the ERICA project on adult education of community-based environmental monitoring.

Paper long abstract:

The fossil fuel industry, apart from being the major cause of climate change, also produces impacts on the local environment, including land degradation, waste production, water and air contamination and biodiversity loss. Identifying individual ways of understanding and processing information about visible changes in the local cultural landscape, which determine certain adaptation strategies, can help coping with an uncertain future. Environmental knowledge gained through adult education enables local communities not only to assert their rights in conflicts with fossil fuel companies, but also to raise awareness about climate change and verify the mitigation or deindustrialization strategies. The paper shall outline assumptions of the project "ERICA - Environmental monitoring through civic engagement" funded by the KA220-ADU-Cooperation partnerships in adult education of the Erasmus+ program. The main objective of the project is to create an e-book of best practices and e-learning platform on environmental monitoring.