Social Learning Towards A Sustainable World

Author : Arjen E.J. Wals
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789086865949

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Social learning towards a sustainable world by Arjen E.J. Wals Pdf

"This comprehensive volume - containing 27 chapters and contributions from six continents - presents and discusses key principles, perspectives, and practices of social learning in the context of sustainability. Social learning is explored from a range of fields challenged by sustainability including: organizational learning, environmental management and corporate social responsibility; multi-stakeholder governance; education, learning and educational psychology; multiple land-use and integrated rural development; and consumerism and critical consumer education. An entire section of the book is devoted to a number of reflective case studies of people, organizations and communities using forms of social learning in moving towards sustainability. 'This book brings together a range of ideas, stories, and discussions about purposeful learning in communities aimed at creating a world that is more sustainable than the one currently in prospect. ...The book is designed to expand the network of conversations through which our society can confront various perspectives, discover emerging patterns, and apply learning to a variety of emotional and social contexts.' From the Foreword by Fritjof Capra, co-founder of the Center of Ecoliteracy. 'Joining what is so clear and refreshing in this book with the larger movements toward a critically democratic and activist education that is worthy of its name, is but one step in the struggle for sustainability. But it is an essential step if we are to use the insights that are included in this book.' From the Afterword by Michael Apple, author of 'Educating the ""Right"" Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality'."

Author : Meg Keen,Valerie A. Brown,Rob Dyball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781844071838

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Social Learning in Environmental Management by Meg Keen,Valerie A. Brown,Rob Dyball Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Arjen E.J. Wals,Peter Blaze Corcoran
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789086867578

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Learning for sustainability in times of accelerating change by Arjen E.J. Wals,Peter Blaze Corcoran Pdf

We live in turbulent times, our world is changing at accelerating speed. Information is everywhere, but wisdom appears in short supply when trying to address key inter-related challenges of our time such as; runaway climate change, the loss of biodiversity, the depletion of natural resources, the on-going homogenization of culture, and rising inequity. Living in such times has implications for education and learning. This book explores the possibilities of designing and facilitating learning-based change and transitions towards sustainability. In 31 chapters contributors from across the world discuss (re)emerging forms of learning that not only assist in breaking down unsustainable routines, forms of governance, production and consumption, but also can help create ones that are more sustainable. The book has been divided into three parts: re-orienting science and society, re-connecting people and planet and re-imagining education and learning. This is essential reading for educators, educational designers, change agents, researchers, students, policymakers and entrepreneurs alike, who are concerned about the well-being of the planet and convinced of our ability to do better. The content and related issues can be discussed on the blog by editor Arjen Wals: Transformative learning. 'We are living in times of incertitude, complexity, and contestation, but also of connectivity, responsibility, and new opportunities. This book analyses the consequences of these times for learning in formal, non-formal, and informal education. It explores the possibilities offered by the concept of sustainability as a central category of a holistic paradigm which harmonizes human beings with Earth. To change people and to change the world are interdependent processes - this book contributes to both.' Moacir Gadotti, Director of Paulo Freire Institute, São Paulo, Brazil 'I hope you share my excitement about the innovations for sustainability that this book catalogues and analyses. While the ecological news is grim, the human news is not. Even in a time of accelerating change, people are showing their enormous capacities to learn, adapt, restore and protect.' From the Foreword by Juliet Schor, author of ‘True Wealth: how and why millions of Americans are creating a time-rich, ecologically-light, small-scale high-satisfaction economy’ 'This book implies a ‘culture of critical commitment’ in educational thinking and practice - engaged enough to make a real difference to social-ecological resilience and sustainability but reflexively critical enough to learn constantly from experience and to keep options open in working for a sustainability transformation.' From the Afterword by Stephen Sterling, Professor of Sustainability Education, Centre for Sustainable Futures, Plymouth University, United Kingdom

Author : Martin W. Holdgate
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1560325593

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From Care to Action by Martin W. Holdgate Pdf

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Rob Dyball,Meg Keen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136557064

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Social Learning in Environmental Management by Rob Dyball,Meg Keen Pdf

Social Learning in Environmental Management explores and expands the approaches to collective learning most needed to help individuals, communities, experts and governments work together to achieve greater social and ecological sustainability. It provides practical frameworks and case studies to assist environmental managers in building partnerships that can support learning and action on issues arising from human impacts on the life-support systems of our planet. In this book, social learning frameworks and case studies address the three areas of collaboration, community, government and professional, in some detail. The resulting guidelines and their practical applications provide key source material for undergraduate and postgraduate professional education in the fields of social and environmental sciences, political science, planning, geography and urban studies, and also for professionals in environmental management.

Author : Marianne E. Krasny,Cecilia Lundholm,Ryan Plummer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317966531

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Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems by Marianne E. Krasny,Cecilia Lundholm,Ryan Plummer Pdf

Resilience thinking challenges us to reconsider the meaning of sustainability in a world that must constantly adapt in the face of gradual and at times catastrophic change. This volume further asks environmental education and resource management scholars to consider the relationship of environmental learning and behaviours to attributes of resilient social-ecological systems - attributes such as ecosystem services, innovative governance structures, biological and cultural diversity, and social capital. Similar to current approaches to environmental education and education for sustainable development, resilience scholarship integrates social and ecological perspectives. The authors of Resilience in social-ecological systems: the role of learning and education present a wealth of perspectives, integrating theory with reviews of empirical studies in natural resource management, and in youth, adult, and higher education. The authors explore the role of education and learning in helping social-ecological systems as they respond to change, through adaptation and transformation. This book also serves to integrate a growing literature on resilience and social learning in natural resources management, with research in environmental education and education for sustainable development. This book was originally published as a special issue of Environmental Education Research.

Author : Thaddeus C. Trzyna,Julia K. Osborn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017090999

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A Sustainable World by Thaddeus C. Trzyna,Julia K. Osborn Pdf

Author : Victoria W. Thoresen,Declan Doyle,Jorgen Klein,Robert J. Didham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319153056

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Responsible Living by Victoria W. Thoresen,Declan Doyle,Jorgen Klein,Robert J. Didham Pdf

Focusing on the challenges of the transition to responsible, sustainable lifestyles, this book examines developments over the last decade in relation to: - the creation of awareness of consumer citizenship, civic involvement and environmental stewardship - research, projects and publications on education for responsible living - the creation and implementation of relevant teaching methods and materials - policies on education for sustainable consumption and lifestyles - global processes for education on sustainable development The articles deal with topics related to policy support, institutional approaches, educators, young people, and local communities. They draw attention to successful initiatives and reflect upon what still needs to be done. The book also looks at the roles that central actors such as PERL (The Partnership for Education and research about Responsible Living) play in this process.

Author : Krijn J. Poppe,Katrien Termeer,Maja Slingerland
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789086866885

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Transitions towards sustainable agriculture and food chains in peri-urban areas by Krijn J. Poppe,Katrien Termeer,Maja Slingerland Pdf

Agriculture is changing rapidly. The greatest current challenge to the agricultural sector is for it to become sustainable in all three of the dimensions profit, people and planet. This is certainly the case in highly urbanized countries like the Netherlands, where agriculture is confronted with high land prices, rising consumer concerns for issues like animal welfare and negative environmental effects but also with new demands from the city for recreation, health care and local food products. These are some of the developments in our society that are forcing agriculture to change. The government, farmers, the agri-food industry and the retail sector struggle to meet this challenge and find new forms of governance. In the Netherlands, the government has called for a ‘transition towards sustainable agriculture’ and it is investing in this programme with its research and education policy. Similar trends have been observed in other countries. This book presents the expertise that has been accrued from at least five years of Dutch research in this area. The aim is to collate the results of the experiments, to learn from them, to confront them with existing theory and to share them with a larger audience in order to foster learning about transition. Given the leading position of the Netherlands in global agriculture, in a highly urbanized setting, and its leading position in the study of transition theory this should be of significant interest to students and researchers of the transitions in agriculture.

Author : Marianne E. Krasny
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501714993

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Grassroots to Global by Marianne E. Krasny Pdf

"This edited volume presents diverse case studies about the implications of civic ecology practices worldwide. It answers how civic ecology practices emerge, the role the practices play in the ability of communities and individuals to address social-ecological stresses, and given climate-associated disturbances, what strategies can be used to expand impacts of community driven practices to foster large-scale resilience and sustainability"--

Author : Azril Bacal Roij
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781801176965

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Transformative Research and Higher Education by Azril Bacal Roij Pdf

Providing a critical look at how it is possible for institutions of higher education to go beyond the institutional constraints that plague the neo-liberal university, the authors of this volume explore the powerful role of transformative university-based research and education.

Author : Fumiyo Kagawa,David Selby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135235437

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Education and Climate Change by Fumiyo Kagawa,David Selby Pdf

There is widespread consensus in the international scientific community that climate change is happening and that abrupt and irreversible impacts are already in motion. In this volume, contributors review and reflect upon social learning from and within their field of educational expertise in response to the concerns over climate change.

Author : John Harris,Valerie A Brown,Jacqueline Russell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136531446

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Tackling Wicked Problems by John Harris,Valerie A Brown,Jacqueline Russell Pdf

From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressing the shift to sustainable futures. Tackling Wicked Problems provides readers with a framework and practical examples that will guide the design and conduct of their own open-ended enquiries. In this approach, academic disciplines are combined with personal, local and strategic understanding and researchers are required to recognise multiple knowledge cultures, accept the inevitability of uncertainty, and clarify their own and others' ethical positions. The authors then comment on fifteen practical examples of how researchers have engaged with the opportunities and challenges of conducting transdisciplinary inquiries. The book gives those who are grappling with complex problems innovative methods of inquiry that will allow them to work collaboratively towards long-term solutions.

Author : Robert Rogerson,Sue Sadler,Anne Green
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1907396500

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Sustainable Communities by Robert Rogerson,Sue Sadler,Anne Green Pdf

Drawing upon interdisciplinary research conducted across various universities within the United Kingdom, this book offers insights into how local initiatives can enhance sustainable development and engage people in creating better places in which to live. Demonstrating how to embed sustainability in all levels of education, this account contains imaginative, practical, and accessible ways in which communities and built-environment professionals are working towards a more sustainable future. Themes such as sustainable development, community coherence, conflict resolution, planning, and environmental management will interest those in a variety of fields, including architecture, urban design, and geography.

Author : Tetsu Sato,Ilan Chabay,Jennifer Helgeson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789811323270

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Transformations of Social-Ecological Systems by Tetsu Sato,Ilan Chabay,Jennifer Helgeson Pdf

Through this book, readers will gain a comprehensive overview of transdisciplinary knowledge co-production in local contexts as an issue-driven and solution-oriented process, and will come to understand its relationship to societal transformation processes toward sustainability. In a single volume, the theory, approaches and academic implications of this novel type of knowledge production are addressed, together with its societal impacts. In the midst of global anthropogenic impacts that affect various environments, over the past few decades we have observed autonomous initiatives in local communities around the world to tackle these environmental challenges. It is vital that such local actions be scaled up to achieve sustainable societies, which requires societal transformation on larger scales. Thanks to numerous collaborative actions in local communities, transdisciplinary knowledge co-production among diverse stakeholders has successfully been mobilized, resulting in the development of Integrated Local Environmental Knowledge (ILEK); knowledge that can inform and support decisions and actions promoting the sustainable transformation of society. This book uses comparative case studies in communities around the world to illuminate and clarify processes and factors promoting the co-production and utilization of ILEK to facilitate decision-making. In addition, readers will gain deeper insights into the science-society interactions that can contribute to finding collaborative solutions to a wide range of critical environmental problems. Though the book is ideally suited for researchers and students, it also offers a valuable resource for practitioners, government agencies, and stakeholder agencies.