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Linguistic Diversity and Environmental Literacy in the Context of Climate Change in Mozambique

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Linguistic diversity can be defined in different perspectives, following the approach taken by Nettle (1999). It includes the language diversity or “language richness,” the number of different languages in a given geographical area; the “phylogenetic diversity,” or variation above the level of languages, such as the number of different lineages of languages found in an area; and a third perspective, “structural diversity,” which is the variation found among structures within languages, such as morphology, word order, and phonology (Nettle and Romaine 2000). The concept defends the respect for all the languages and promotes the preservation of those that are in extinction by lack of speakers (Nettle 1996, Nettle and Romaine 2000).

Environmental literacy includes individual’s understanding, skills, and motivation to make responsible decisions that considers his or her relationships to natural systems, communities, and future generations (Hollweg et al. 2011). The definition...

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  1. Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) and Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Fernando Morgado

  2. Centre for Functional Ecology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Maria de Fátima Alves

  3. Department of Social Sciences and Management, Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal

    Maria de Fátima Alves

  4. Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Abel Salazar (ICBAS) and Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Luis R. Vieira

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Morgado, F., de Fátima Alves, M., Vieira, L.R. (2019). Linguistic Diversity and Environmental Literacy in the Context of Climate Change in Mozambique. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Climate Action. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_124-1

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