Towards a narrative of nature: psychology in the face of sustainable challenge

Abstract

Considerable scientific research in different fields has been motivated by sustainable development model. Such is the case of psychology which looks for behavioral and mental factors that take place in human-nature relations. Even though the emerging field of environmental psychology has proposed itself stimulating sustainable conducts, it has been working within epistemological frameworks that tend to maintain modern worldview approaches related to environmental damage. Narrative approaches of psychology are suggested here as an alternative method capable of subverting the epistemological order.