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Requiem for a Species
Requiem for a Species
Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change
By Clive Hamilton
This book does not set out once more to raise the alarm to encourage us to take radical measures to head off climate chaos. There have been any number of books and reports in recent years explaining just how dire the future looks and how little time we have left to act.
This book is about why we have ignored those warnings, and why it may now be too late. It is a book about the frailties of the human species as expressed in both the institutions we built and the psychological dispositions that have led us on the path of self-destruction. It is about our strange obsessions, our hubris, and our penchant for avoiding the facts. It is the story of a battle within us between the forces that should have caused us to protect the Earth - our capacity to reason and our connection to Nature - and those that, in the end, have won out - our greed, materialism and alienation from Nature. And it is about the 21st century consequences of these failures.
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Sustainability Education
Sustainability Education
Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education
Edited By Paula Jones, David Selby and Stephen Sterling
How do we equip learners with the values, knowledge, skills, and motivation to help achieve economic, social and ecological well-being? How can universities make a major contribution towards a more sustainable future? Amid rising expectations on HE from professional associations, funders, policy makers, and undergraduates, and increasing interest amongst academics and senior management, a growing number of higher education institutions are taking the lead in embracing sustainability. This response does not only include greening the campus but also transforming curricula and teaching and learning.
This book explains why this is necessary and - crucially - how to do it.
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Sustainability at Universities
Sustainability at Universities - Opportunities, Challenges and Trends
Edited by Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DL, DPhil, DLitt, FLS FIBiol, FRGS)
Peter Lang Scientific Publishers, New York, December 2009
ISBN 9783631596906, 340 pp.
Sustainability is widely defined as "the ability to meet the needs of the present while living within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems and without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". However, the goal of managing today's resources so that they may be available to future generations is not easy to reach. Indeed, in order to achieve this ambitious goal, it is important that universities -- similar to other sectors of society- become engaged in the sustainability debate, not superficially as it has largely been the case until now, but in a manner not seen before.
Higher Education and Sustainable Development
Higher Education and Sustainable Development
Paradox and Possibility
By Stephen Gough and William Scott
This book examines whether it is actually possible to mandate, plan, monitor and evaluate the higher education sector’s route to the production of educated, innovative, independent, self-determining, critical individuals while at the same time achieving a range of wider policy goals on the side. This book examines this question in the context of a particular international policy issue – sustainable development – which is now seen across the globe as a necessary and urgent response to a range of social and environmental issues that threaten the integrity of the biosphere and human well being. The book concludes that the idea of sustainable development holds both opportunities and dangers for universities as they pursue their proper role in a free society.
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Environmental Learning
This book is about how school and university students experience and respond to learning activities concerned with environmental issues. While the learning demands associated with sustainable development become ever greater and more complex, our understandings of the nature and dynamics of such learning are in their early infancy. Environmental education and education for sustainable development have become features of many countries’ formal education systems, but very little is known about what such provision looks and feels like for the learners concerned. The aim of this book is to bring learners and their experiences to the centre of current debates about environmental education and education for sustainable development. By exploring the real-time actions, interactions and interpretations of individual learners in various environmental learning situations, we show how insights from research into the student experience can provide powerful pointers for future practice, policy and research. The last 4 decades have seen growing international recognition for the educational dimensions of environmental and sustainable development issues. Since the late 1960s, international statements from organisations such as the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) and UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) have called for environmental problems to be tackled through environmental education for all age groups. The 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm declared that: ‘education in environmental matters, for the younger generation as well as adults […] is essential’ (United Nation 1972).
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