ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to engage the bi-relational dimension of socio-ecological challenges in relation to dyads such as nature/culture and technological/ecological. It explores how onto-epistemological developments can reconcile opposites that otherwise exacerbate problems in exclusively binary oppositional forms. These dyadic relationships are all the more salient for the modern spectre of anthropogenic climate change, which demands a deep and decisive dialogue about the relationship between humans and the environment. The chapter also illustrates the ubiquity of dyads in socio-ecological literature. These dyads help us to define some of the most pressing problems and challenges that define the discourse namely, pollution, climate change, population growth, resource depletion and species extinction. The chapter then shows that the relationship between the conceptualisation of socio-ecological problems and the (re)solution of socio-ecological problems. Finally, it highlights the significance of the metaphysical dimension of socio-ecological problems, especially in relation to environmental education.
