ABSTRACT
Energy literacy seems to have an important role in the process of enhancing understanding about transition among stakeholders and enabling individuals and communities to understand the complex nature of change and adaptation in the Arctic System. This holistic education for the dynamic nature of change inspires an extended perspective of economic, social, environmental, and cultural aspects’ interconnections (ESD) equipping people to make more thoughtful, responsible energy-related decisions and actions. This knowledge for change and adaptation is powerful because it is based on geo-capabilities in the sense that it enables people to deal with complexity, unpredictability, and variability by envisaging alternatives or futures scenarios of sustainability. It is about recognizing the dynamic, cyclical, and interdependent nature of all the Earth’s components, the interactions of humans with their habitats and the planet’s bio-cycles. Sustainability is seen here as a dynamic state where the world becomes a place for everyone to pursue its right to live and thrive under a dynamic and durable equilibrium by knowing to live together, exercising their real freedoms with a sentiment of global citizenship.
