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This interdisciplinary dissertation establishes connections between an ecocritical approach to Transatlantic literature and eco-pedagogy as an educational approach to the environmental crisis to highlight the role of literature and its teaching in raising ecological awareness. The first chapter presents the theoretical foundations that support the research, which is linked to ecocriticism, landscape studies, eco-pedagogy, perspectivism, environmental issues, and advances in legislation promoting environmental protection. The following chapters focus on a specific space: the sea, the jungle, and the city. The second chapter, titled "The Sea," analyzes Gabriel García Márquez’s Relato de un náufrago and Lola Suárez’s Maresía as road movies. This chapter includes an ecological activist approach. The third chapter, "The Jungle," focuses on Ciro Alegría’s La serpiente de oro and Santiago Roncagliolo’s El príncipe de los caimanes. These novels are subject to an ecoacoustical and an ecological tourism approach, respectively. The fourth chapter, "The City," includes David Trueba’s El río Baja Sucio and Augusto Higa’s La iluminación de Katzuo Nakamatzu, which are interpreted from a memory studies approach. Furthermore, in chapters two through four, the literary and ecocritical research is complemented with an eco-pedagogical approach aimed at literature teachers of late adolescents or young adults in the field of Spanish as a Second Language. The sequenced set of activities encompasses the entire teaching-learning process from the motivational phase to metacognition. This eco-pedagogical approach contributes to developing students' communicative and cultural skills, and an ecological awareness to aid in their transformation into agents of change.