Society-nature relations are contextualized from the organismic and mechanical analogies to the focus of an environmental epistemology, on the face of the current western civilization crisis; in that respect, the complexity paradigm ensures overcoming the sustainable development ambiguities in view of a proper socioenvironmental sustainability - thus ensuing Environmental Education practices critically orientated under a new pedagogy of knowledge, which demands both new learnings and new relations among individuals, so as between society and nature, in compliance with a Responsibility Ethics.
society-nature relations; environmental epistemology; environmental education