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The links between education and sustainable development are
deepening, although subject to much controversy and debate. The
success of the sustainability discourse depends both on the
pedagogic and research functions of higher education. Similarly,
for higher education itself to remain relevant and engaged it faces
pressure not only to integrate the insights and lessons drawn from
the perspective of sustainable development, but also to be
responsive to scrutiny of its own practices in relation to
sustainability. Among professionals in higher education,
sustainable development has its supporters and detractors. It is
embraced by some individuals and departments while being perceived
by others as a threat to the coherence of particular disciplines.
Although it is not currently an academic discipline in its own
right, increasing public and professional familiarity with the
term, and the increasing urgency of global calls for the
implementation of sustainable development mean that this is rapidly
changing. This volume analyses the impact of the concepts and
practices of sustainability and sustainable development on various
academic disciplines, institutional practices, fields of study and
methods of enquiry. The contributors, drawn from a wide-range of
disciplines, perspectives, educational levels and institutional
contexts, examine the purpose of the modern university and the
nature of sustainable education, which includes exploring links to
social movements for sustainability projects, curriculum change,
culture and biodiversity, values relating to gender equality and
global responsibility, and case studies on the transformation, or
otherwise, of some specific disciplines.
Natural History filmmaking has a long history but the generic
boundaries between it and environmental and conservation filmmaking
are blurred. Nature, environment and animal imagery has been a
mainstay of television, campaigning organisations and conservation
bodies from Greenpeace to the Sierra Club, with vibrant images
being used effectively on posters, leaflets and postcards, and in
coffee table books, media releases, short films and viral emails to
educate and inform the general public. However, critics suggest
that wildlife film and photography frequently convey a false image
of the state of the world's flora and fauna. The environmental
educator David Orr once remarked that all education is
environmental education, and it is possible to see all image-based
communication in the same way. The Media, Animal Conservation and
Environmental Education has contributions from filmmakers,
photographers, researchers and academics from across the globe. It
explores the various ways in which film, television and video are,
and can be, used by conservationists and educators to encourage
both a greater awareness of environmental and conservation issues,
and practical action designed to help endangered species. This book
is based on a special issue of the journal Environmental Education
Research.
Resilience is a term that is gaining currency in conservation and
sustainable development, though its meaning and value in this
context is yet to be defined. Searching for Resilience in
Sustainable Development examines ways in which resilience may be
created within the web of ecological, socio-economic and cultural
systems that make up the world in. The authors embark upon a
learning journey exploring both robust and fragile systems and
asking questions of groups and individuals actively involved in
building or maintaining resilience. Through a series of wide
ranging interviews the authors give voice to the many different
approaches to thinking of and building resilience that may
otherwise stay rooted in and confined by specific disciplinary,
professional or spatial contexts. The book documents emerging
trends, shifting tactics and future pathways for the conservation
and sustainable development movement post Rio+20, arriving at a set
of diverse but connected conclusions and questions in relation to
the resilience of people and planet. This book is ideal for
students and researchers working in the fields of conservation,
sustainable development, education, systems thinking and
development studies. It will also be of great interest to NGOs and
government officers whose interests and responsibilities focus on
conserving or reconstructing biodiversity and system resilience.
The links between education and sustainable development are
deepening, although subject to much controversy and debate. The
success of the sustainability discourse depends both on the
pedagogic and research functions of higher education. Similarly,
for higher education itself to remain relevant and engaged it faces
pressure not only to integrate the insights and lessons drawn from
the perspective of sustainable development, but also to be
responsive to scrutiny of its own practices in relation to
sustainability. Among professionals in higher education,
sustainable development has its supporters and detractors. It is
embraced by some individuals and departments while being perceived
by others as a threat to the coherence of particular disciplines.
Although it is not currently an academic discipline in its own
right, increasing public and professional familiarity with the
term, and the increasing urgency of global calls for the
implementation of sustainable development mean that this is rapidly
changing. This volume analyses the impact of the concepts and
practices of sustainability and sustainable development on various
academic disciplines, institutional practices, fields of study and
methods of enquiry. The contributors, drawn from a wide-range of
disciplines, perspectives, educational levels and institutional
contexts, examine the purpose of the modern university and the
nature of sustainable education, which includes exploring links to
social movements for sustainability projects, curriculum change,
culture and biodiversity, values relating to gender equality and
global responsibility, and case studies on the transformation, or
otherwise, of some specific disciplines.
Natural History filmmaking has a long history but the generic
boundaries between it and environmental and conservation filmmaking
are blurred. Nature, environment and animal imagery has been a
mainstay of television, campaigning organisations and conservation
bodies from Greenpeace to the Sierra Club, with vibrant images
being used effectively on posters, leaflets and postcards, and in
coffee table books, media releases, short films and viral emails to
educate and inform the general public. However, critics suggest
that wildlife film and photography frequently convey a false image
of the state of the world's flora and fauna. The environmental
educator David Orr once remarked that all education is
environmental education, and it is possible to see all image-based
communication in the same way. The Media, Animal Conservation and
Environmental Education has contributions from filmmakers,
photographers, researchers and academics from across the globe. It
explores the various ways in which film, television and video are,
and can be, used by conservationists and educators to encourage
both a greater awareness of environmental and conservation issues,
and practical action designed to help endangered species. This book
is based on a special issue of the journal Environmental Education
Research.
A truly comprehensive introduction to the topic, Understanding
Sustainable Development is designed to give students on a wide
range of courses an appreciation of the key concepts and theories
of sustainable development. Fully updated, the third edition
includes detailed coverage of the Sustainable Development Goals and
their impact on global development. Major challenges and topics are
explored through a range of international case studies and media
examples which maintain the 'global to local' structure of the
previous edition. With an extensive website and pedagogy,
Understanding Sustainable Development is the most complete guide to
the subject for course leaders, undergraduates and postgraduates.
Much loved in his own era, William Morris has inspired Prime
Ministers (Clement Attlee), artists and eco-socialists (John
Bellamy Foster). Ferociously opposed to capitalism and inequality,
he sought to embrace humanity with passion, commitment, energy and
belief working vigorously for a free, green and non-hierarchical
future. All this - with his distrust of conventional politicians
and with his belief that people can and must change the world -
resonates in social movement politics today. This book offers a
fresh perspective: a transhistorical approach presenting Morris's
libertarian politics through exploring his intellectual and
cultural heritage and considering practical-political issues,
actions and aims. Today we see how class intersects with gender,
politics with technology and economics, ecology with industry and
economics, art with history. John Blewitt shows how these - and
more - intersect with each other and with power, domination,
resistance, emergence and transcendence. Morris helps us grapple
with these challenges offering an ethics and a politics embracing
socialism, communism, anarchism and feminism. Hark the rolling of
the thunder! Lo the sun! and lo thereunder Riseth wrath, and hope,
and wonder, And the host comes marching on.
The United Nations has pithily defined sustainable development as
progress that 'meets the needs of the present without compromising
the ability of future generations to meet their own needs'. But
sustainable development remains highly contested and is subject to
a wide variety of interpretations, applications, and criticisms.
Moreover, those seeking fully to understand this critical concept
are confronted with a (sometimes dispiritingly) voluminous body of
scholarly, polemical, and journalistic writing. Edited by the
acclaimed author of Understanding Sustainable Development
(Earthscan, 2008), this new title from Routledge's Critical
Concepts in the Environment series answers the need for an
authoritative reference work to make sense of the vast literature
on sustainable development, and the continuing explosion in
research output. Drawing on a wide variety of sources that take
full cognizance of the rich background and necessary adaptability
of the concept to the imperatives of time, place, and culture, and
which emphasize its connected and transdisciplinary nature, the
editor has brought together in four volumes the canonical and the
best cutting-edge work to produce an indispensable 'mini library'.
The collection covers the history, mediation, application, and
likely future orientations of sustainable development, both
conceptually and as a continually emerging practice. Sustainable
Development is fully indexed and includes comprehensive
introductions, newly written by the editor, which place the
collected materials in their historical and intellectual context.
It is an essential reference collection and is certain to be valued
by scholars and students-as well as serious policy-makers and
practitioners-as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.
Resilience is a term that is gaining currency in conservation and
sustainable development, though its meaning and value in this
context is yet to be defined. Searching for Resilience in
Sustainable Development examines ways in which resilience may be
created within the web of ecological, socio-economic and cultural
systems that make up the world in. The authors embark upon a
learning journey exploring both robust and fragile systems and
asking questions of groups and individuals actively involved in
building or maintaining resilience. Through a series of wide
ranging interviews the authors give voice to the many different
approaches to thinking of and building resilience that may
otherwise stay rooted in and confined by specific disciplinary,
professional or spatial contexts. The book documents emerging
trends, shifting tactics and future pathways for the conservation
and sustainable development movement post Rio+20, arriving at a set
of diverse but connected conclusions and questions in relation to
the resilience of people and planet. This book is ideal for
students and researchers working in the fields of conservation,
sustainable development, education, systems thinking and
development studies. It will also be of great interest to NGOs and
government officers whose interests and responsibilities focus on
conserving or reconstructing biodiversity and system resilience.
Your house is flooded by a rain-swollen river. What do you learn
from this experience? Do you shrug your shoulders and call your
insurer? Or do you choose to learn about climate change, switch to
renewable energy and lobby politicians? This book is a
groundbreaking examination of how learning in everyday environments
- business, work, home, community life - is key to improving
society and achieving sustainability. It is ideal for educators,
teachers, corporate trainers and consultants working to integrate
environmental education, sustainability and innovation in
non-traditional learning situations. How can we understand and
achieve sustainability? How can we re-school society towards
sustainability? Throughout life we learn, we develop meanings and
connections, and we act. This book explores the possibilities for
developing a sustainable society through 'lifelong learning' - that
is, learning that happens in everyday environments and activities
as diverse as shopping, community, 'edutainment', information and
communication technology, the internet, broadcasting, people's
experience of place and space, green building, social networks and
consumer culture.Drawing on a range of sociological,
anthropological and educational studies as well as new research The
Ecology of Learning provides a broad trans-disciplinary
understanding of the topic. The coverage is impressive with an
accessible but informed engagement with both theory and practice
and a wide range of examples. The voices, stories and experiences
of many people are used to illustrate the ways people may reshape
our understanding of learning and sustainability.
A truly comprehensive introduction to the topic, Understanding
Sustainable Development is designed to give students on a wide
range of courses an appreciation of the key concepts and theories
of sustainable development. Fully updated, the third edition
includes detailed coverage of the Sustainable Development Goals and
their impact on global development. Major challenges and topics are
explored through a range of international case studies and media
examples which maintain the 'global to local' structure of the
previous edition. With an extensive website and pedagogy,
Understanding Sustainable Development is the most complete guide to
the subject for course leaders, undergraduates and postgraduates.
A wide-ranging collection of essays written for the William Morris
Society exploring the various intersections between the life, work
and achievements of William Morris (1834-1896) and that of John
Ruskin (1819-1900). Subjects covered include Ruskin's connection
with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, the promotion of craft skills and
meaningful work, Morris and the division of labour, Ruskin's
engagement with education and the environment, Ruskin and the art
and architecture of Red House, the parallels between Ruskin's
support for Laxey Mill and Morris's Merton Abbey Works, the
illustrated manuscript and the contrasts between Ruskin's Tory
paternalism and Morris's revolutionary socialism. The book includes
articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies
between 1977 and 2012 and new pieces written especially for this
volume. Ruskin's beliefs had a profound and lasting impact on
Morris who wrote, upon first reading Ruskin whilst at Oxford
University, that his views offered a "new road on which the world
should travel" - a road that led Morris to social and political
change.
This book challenges the assumption that it is bad news when the
economy doesn't grow.For decades, it has been widely recognised
that there are ecological limits to continuing economic growth and
that different ways of living, working and organising our economies
are urgently required. This urgency has increased since the
financial crash of 2007-2008 - but mainstream economists and
politicians are unable to think differently. The authors
demonstrate why our economic system demands ecologically
unsustainable growth and the pursuit of more 'stuff'. They believe
that what matters is quality, not quantity - a better life based on
having fewer material possessions, less production and less work.
Such a way of life will emphasize well-being, community, security,
and what Ivan Illich rightly called 'conviviality'. That is, more
real wealth. The book will therefore appeal to everyone curious as
to how a new post-growth economics can be conceived and enacted. It
will be of particular interest to policy makers, politicians,
business people, trade unionists, academics, students, journalists
and a wide range of people working in the not for profit sector.
All of the contributors are leading thinkers on Green issues and
members of the new think tank Green House.
A wide-ranging collection of essays written for the William Morris
Society exploring the various intersections between the life, work
and achievements of William Morris (1834-1896) and that of John
Ruskin (1819-1900). Subjects covered include Ruskin's connection
with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, the promotion of craft skills and
meaningful work, Morris and the division of labour, Ruskin's
engagement with education and the environment, Ruskin and the art
and architecture of Red House, the parallels between Ruskin's
support for Laxey Mill and Morris's Merton Abbey Works, the
illustrated manuscript and the contrasts between Ruskin's Tory
paternalism and Morris's revolutionary socialism. The book includes
articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies
between 1977 and 2012 and new pieces written especially for this
volume. Ruskin's beliefs had a profound and lasting impact on
Morris who wrote, upon first reading Ruskin whilst at Oxford
University, that his views offered a "new road on which the world
should travel" - a road that led Morris to social and political
change.
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