Jason Rhoades, core faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Studies, and alumni Ximena Gallegos Gutierrez (MS Environmental Studies), published a new article in Environmental Education Research titled, “Comparative assessment of the environmental education policies of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela.”
The study tackles a practical problem: national environmental education (EE) policies shape what countries can implement at scale, yet researchers and policymakers have had limited comparative guidance for how to design strong national EE policy. Rhoades and Gallegos Gutierrez address that gap by building an assessment framework tailored to a South American context and applying it to publicly available national EE policy documents from Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. They evaluate policies across six dimensions —evidence-based grounding, regional relevance, attention to community issues, political feasibility, financial realism, and stakeholder consensus—and map how countries differ in content, approach, and underlying theories.
To read the article, click here.
