Environmental management and education in the development of skills for sustainability

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19617256

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local capabilities, socio-environmental problems, professionalizing postgraduate, bonding

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Addressing socio-environmental problems requires the intervention of professionals with a solid, comprehensive education. This paper was written to identify the sustainability competencies incorporated into the curriculum of the Master's Program in Environmental Management for Sustainability and in a case study. Through qualitative, descriptive research, documentary analysis was applied as the research technique to review information contained in the curriculum. As a result of the first level of analysis, competencies in systemic, normative, strategic, collaborative, and critical thinking, as stated in the document, were identified. In a second level of analysis, a case study was reviewed, identifying competencies in critical thinking, collaboration, systemic, strategic, and anticipatory thinking, developed by a student in her thesis project. It is concluded that developing sustainability competencies constitutes a central axis in environmental education and an opportunity to strengthen local capacities in contexts of socio-environmental vulnerability.

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Author Biographies

Lic. María de los Ángeles Chamorro Zárate, Universidad Veracruzana, México

Bachelor in Biology from the Universidad Veracruzana. Master of Science (Biology) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, specialist in Environmental Sciences from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. Doctor in Environmental Sciences from the University of Xalapa. Full-time professor. Faculty of Biology. Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico.

Lic. Elaine Cervantes Guevara, Veracruz University

Law and International Business graduate, with a master's in Human Rights and Amparo Trial from the University of Xalapa, and in Environmental Management for Sustainability from the University of Veracruz; a scholarship holder of the National Postgraduate System and a PhD student in Education at the University of Xalapa, with extensive experience in legal, administrative, transparency, human resources, and public management areas.

Lic. Rodolfo Viveros Contreras, Universidad Veracruzana, México

Bachelor in Pedagogy from the Universidad Veracruzana, Master in Education from the Universidad Pedagógica Veracruzana, and Doctor in Education from the Universidad de Baja California. He is a member of the National System of Researchers (candidate).

Mtro. Héctor Venancio Narave Flores, Universidad Veracruzana, México

Biologist from the Universidad Veracruzana. Master in Environmental Policy, Management, and Law from Universidad Anáhuac. Doctor in Sustainable Regional Development from El Colegio de Veracruz. Full-time professor at the Faculty of Biology, Universidad Veracruzana. Experience: environmental management, natural resource management.

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2026-04-14

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Chamorro Zárate, M. de los Ángeles, Cervantes Guevara, E., Viveros Contreras, R., & Narave Flores, H. V. (2026). Environmental management and education in the development of skills for sustainability. Universita Ciencia, 14(39), 339–349. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19617256

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Vol. 14 No. 39 (2026): Gobernanza y gestión ante los desafíos actuales

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