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Lifelong Health and Wellbeing (LLHW) Phase III
Lifelong Health and Wellbeing (LLHW) is a major cross-council initiative involving AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC and MRC in partnership with the UK health departments. LLHW supports multi-disciplinary research addressing factors across the life course that influence healthy ageing and wellbeing in later life. LLHW has committed £16 million of joint funds so far in the first two phases of the programme supporting high quality multidisciplinary collaborative research, engaging with stakeholders and the public, building research capacity and promoting knowledge transfer. The funding partners have recently announced the launch of Phase 3 of the initiative. A total of £12.5 million will be available to support high quality cross-disciplinary ageing-relevant research through two modes of support: LLHW Research Grants and LLHW Pilot Studies. The focus of the call is to continue supporting high-quality, innovative, multidisciplinary applications that address major ageing-related challenges faced by the UK in the 21st century. Proposals will be welcome from multidisciplinary teams in, but not restricted to the following cross-cutting areas: Mental health and wellbeing including quality of life, preserving cognitive function and exploiting mental capital; resilience for successful ageing - from cell to society including life course influences, markers for ageing and processes of ageing; and, age-related conditions, including frailty and interventions to promote independence in later life. More…
Sustainable Development Evaluation in Europe: From a decade of practices, politics and science to emerging demands – Call for Papers
Papers are invited for a three-day conference being organised by the Centre of Studies on Sustainable Development of the Free University Brussels from 17th to 19th November 2010. The primary aim of the conference is to highlight critical insights gained through the development and implementation of almost a decade of sustainability evaluation: How is SD integrated into various EU-level evaluation procedures (e.g. EU Structural Funds, IA of trade measures and agreements, work of the European Court of Auditors)? What are the remaining methodological and policy challenges related to the EU and national sustainability evaluation procedures? What is the role of the different actors in these procedures (e.g. EU Parliament, European Court of Auditors, stakeholders)? Being the last of the EASY-ECO 2002-2010 series of events, the Brussels conference also aims to explore the future of SD evaluation, and in particular the current challenges and forthcoming demands, the expectations, uses and effects related to SD evaluation: Who are the effective and potential users of SD evaluations? What types of uses have been made of sustainability evaluations? What effects of SD evaluations are expected and which are achieved? How does SD evaluation support actors in managing competing agendas? Will reorienting SD evaluation towards integrated evaluation make a difference? Submissions can address questions relating to two key topics: (1) Integrating sustainable development evaluation into policy-making processes; and (2) Sustainable development evaluation demands for the future - who and what for? Papers should be submitted by 15th June 2010. More…
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Research
New Research – Distributional impacts of carbon taxation
An international team led by the University of Leeds has found that the poorest households could pay four times more as a proportion of their income towards a CO2 tax than high earners. This is due to the different ways in which these groups consume energy. The researchers argue that a fairer way to tackle climate change would be to tax households on a range of greenhouse gases such as CO2, methane and nitrous oxide. However, despite leaving low income households better off, the researchers found that a GHG tax would still be regressive meaning that it imposes a greater burden on poor households than richer ones. This disparity is partly caused by the different lifestyles of low and high income individuals. Poor households spend around 40% of their income on household costs such as heating and electricity compared to just 8% for high earners. A GHG tax would shift the balance from carbon emissions to other gases, which would give relief to the poorest members of society. ‘Food production alone generates a huge amount of methane, which is 20-times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas’, said co-lead Kuishuang Feng from the University of Leeds. ‘Including methane in a broader GHG tax would shift the balance from household utilities to food, reducing the strain on poorer families. However, because a GHG tax it sill regressive, poor households may need to be compensated to make sure they are not unfairly penalised…One way the government could do this would be to reduce the rate of other taxes for these households, or to allow these families to use more carbon’. The full research findings are published this week in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Please contact Klaus Hubacek for more information.
New Research – ‘Carbon phrases’ reveal patterns in climate change communication
Phrases that combine 'carbon' with other words, such as 'carbon finance' or 'carbon footprint', can provide insight into how climate change issues are communicated. A new study explored online use of these so-called 'carbon compounds' and indicated that they form three clusters focused on finance, lifestyle and attitudes. The research used a novel approach to study the use of 'carbon compounds' in online sources, including blogs. It identified 34 compounds that were used most frequently and were also used creatively. For example, 'carbon diet' is considered creative because 'diet' is not usually associated with carbon, whereas 'carbon emission' is not considered creative. By using two online search engines it combined both a quantitative analysis of the usage of these terms from 1992 to 2008 with a qualitative analysis of the context of their uses. The results indicated that the number of uses of all compounds has risen from 2000 onwards and peaked around the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008. Those that combined 'carbon' with words from the world of finance, such as 'carbon budget' or 'carbon credit', appeared to be the oldest and were in use between the early 1990s and 1999. Economic management of climate change then entered a second phase characterised more by person-centred activities. From 2005 onwards, compounds became more emotional and evaluative, such as 'carbon dictatorship', 'carbon crusade' and 'carbon morality'. This indicated that climate change mitigation was no longer framed in scientific observations but considered to be more about morality. Both the presence and absence of these three types of compound can reveal the nature of positions taken by various stakeholders seeking to communicate climate change. More…
New Research – The Carbon Calculator
A new carbon footprinting tool, developed by researchers at the University of Manchester, suggests that lamb curry ready-made meals eaten in the UK amount to an annual carbon footprint equivalent to 5,500 car trips around the world or 140 million car miles. The estimates are based on the figure of 30% of adults in the UK who eat ready-made meals at least once a week. Curry is one of the nation's favourites, accounting for up to 10% of ready-made sales - which have soared during the recession. The academics found that the fast food meal generates the equivalent of 4.3 kg of carbon dioxide emissions per person. The meal's ingredients are responsible for 65% of the carbon footprint, with lamb contributing half of the total. Meal manufacture contributes on average 14% and packaging 4% of the total carbon footprint. The contribution of transport is small at 2%. However, storage at the retailer contributes 16%. The £1m project is led by Adisa Azapagic, Professor of Sustainable Chemical Engineering at The University of Manchester, and funded by the Carbon Trust, the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council. In addition to food products, the CCaLC carbon footprinting tool can be used for the estimation of carbon footprints of other products, including packaging, biofuels and various chemicals. More…
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Events
Launch Event – ‘Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto’
15th June 2010: The Royal Society, London.
We live in a time of unprecedented advances in science and technology. The world is ever more globalised and interconnected. Yet poverty is deepening, the environment is in crisis and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals has stalled. Meeting the interlinked global challenges of poverty reduction, social justice and environmental sustainability is the great moral and political imperative of our age. Science, technology and innovation of many kinds have essential roles to play in this. However, the STEPS Centre believes that this imperative can only be fulfilled if there is a radical shift in how we think about and perform innovation. They are calling for a new politics of innovation, and argue that such a shift is possible, and in inspirational initiatives around the world, it is underway. ‘Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto’ intends to provoke more vibrant and explicitly political debate and to catalyse action. More…
Masterclass – ‘Entrepreneurship for Sustainability’
11th June 2010: University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham.
This free enterprise masterclass, run by Elisabeth Bittner, explores how enterprising skills and behaviours can support sustainable development, and includes a range of examples and case studies, as well as advice about EU funding opportunities. The event is aimed at businesses, organisations and academics with an interest in innovation and sustainability. Elisabeth Bittner is an international speaker with 30 years of experience in education policy and capacity development in a lifelong learning context. She has worked at a senior level for the Directorate General Education and Culture of the European Commission in Brussels, and for several German State Ministries. This masterclass has been developed by RCE Severn and the University of Gloucestershire and forms part of the Knowledge Escalator programme of Enterprise activity at the University (www.glos.ac.uk/vision/sustainability/unurce). Please RSVP by 4th June to Ms. Seek Pang. More…
Seminar – ‘PRISM Postgraduate Researchers Interested in Sustainability Matters’
30th June 2010: University of Gloucestershire.
In this seminar, Dr Jo Anna Reed Johnson will be discussing critical realism as a research paradigm for sustainability and Dr Andrea Wheeler will be sharing her experience of running a post-doctoral interdisciplinary research project. The seminar is open to all interested parties free of charge, refreshments will be available on arrival and although lunch will not be provided, there will be an opportunity to sample the catering in the refectory, which is provided by the newly appointed local caterers BaxterStorey, selected for their sustainability credentials.For further information about this event please contact Glenn Strachan. To book a place at the seminar, please email Seek Pang. More…
Conference – ‘Avenues, Alleyways and Boulevards’
24th June 2010: Jodrell Laboratory Lecture Theatre, Kew.
Tree-lined routes are human imprints on the landscape. Over the centuries, these corridors have become living architectural features. Today avenues have additional roles, including mitigating the effects of cars and offering protection from climate change. The modern challenge is how to continue their historic legacy and create new avenues in order to secure this essential green infrastructure for future generations. This conference, organised by Treeworks Environmental Practice, has urban and rural relevance, appealing to specialists and non-specialists with interests in landscape and the importance and care of trees. It will explore conservation, psychological and sociological perspectives, including the utilitarian, historic, biodiversity and aesthetic considerations that inform policy and practice. Delegates are invited to contribute to the debate by bringing key concerns and suggestions for policy and management in challenging economic and climatic times. More…
NIACE Seminar – ‘Activism, adult learning and sustainable development’
8th June 2010: London Metropolitan Archives.
Whilst much teaching and learning is carried out in schools on sustainable development, adults who are interested in this area, or want to find out more, often turn to campaigning and activist groups for sources of information and understanding. Whilst adult learning and activism are not the same thing, it can be argued that there are areas of overlap which could usefully be explored and examined in relation to reach, content and methodologies. Learning from each other could assist campaigning, activist and adult learning organisations to reach more adults, share creative approaches and foster deeper understanding and knowledge to underpin long term involvement. Based on an understanding that sustainable development could be situated in the interstices of economic, social and environmental issues affecting local and global communities, this seminar explores and examines the relationship between adult and community learning and activism and sustainable development. More…
Training Event – ‘Learning to Lobby: Effective Influencing and Advocacy at a Global Policy Level’
17th June 2010:St Albans Centre, Central London.
Based on 25 years of experience of lobbying at intergovernmental meetings, Stakeholder Forum has designed a one-day training course that seeks to provide all of the tools, knowledge and tricks-of-the-trade to ensure that individuals and their organisations can more effectively lobby decision-makers at the international level. The day will cover the core essentials for an effective lobbying strategy, including: How to prepare for intergovernmental meetings; how to lobby decision-makers; and how to work with the media. In addition, they will organise two alternative sessions dedicated to upcoming and ongoing intergovernmental meetings; the UNFCCC negotiations and the MDG + 10 Review Summit. More…
Training Event – ‘The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Directive: Implementation in practice’
23rd – 25th June 2010: Imperial College London.
Imperial College London and Collingwood Environmental Planning (CEP) will be delivering a three-day interactive training course aimed at responsible authorities who are implementing the SEA Directive, be that through commissioning consultants to carry out SEA and sustainability appraisal or by carrying out the assessments themselves, as well as consultees, regulators and academics with an interest in SEAs. The course will cover the range of sectors detailed in the Directive (e.g. water, transport, waste, and planning). The aim of this course is to provide a sound grounding in the details of the Directive, how to implement it in practice and how to tackle some of the key challenges that it presents. For more details please contact Marta Kowaleska. More…
Conference – ‘The Road to Zero Carbon’
15th June 2010: Reading Town Hall, Reading.
The Government has set targets to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from all buildings, whether residential, commercial or public, new or existing. All new buildings will need to be zero carbon within a decade, starting with a 25% reduction in CO2 emissions from October this year, while CO2 emissions from existing buildings need to be approaching zero by 2050. This conference will showcase some of the best of the increasing number of demonstration and real world low and zero carbon buildings being built, with a strong focus on the steps and measures taken and the impact it had on the construction process. More…
Conference – ‘European Water and Waste Water Management’
27th – 28th September 2010: The Royal Armouries, Leeds.
The first draft programme is now available for the fourth European Water and Wastewater Management Conference. This year the conference will explore how the water industry is gearing up to the challenges of reducing its environmental footprint. The programme includes a range of technical sessions, workshops and expert discussion panels which are intended to provide an interactive environment where those who are offering the new ideas and solutions can interact with and learn from those who have been involved with the successes and failures of the previous century. Plenary keynote speakers include: Alan Sutherland (Chief Executive, Water Industry Commission for Scotland); William Wilson (Barrister, Burges Salmon LLP); Dr Nigel Horan (University of Leeds); and, Chris Robinson (Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Surrey). More…
Conference – ‘CRC Energy Efficiency Summit’
6th – 7th July 2010: London.
The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) is the UK’s first mandatory energy savings and carbon trading scheme targeting emissions from public and private sector groups. Organisations with half-hourly metered electricity consumption greater than 6,000 MWh per year are included in this scheme which is designed to incentivise energy and carbon savings through reputational and financial drivers. CRC participants that fail to reduce their energy consumption and carbon emissions are expected to face significant costs associated with the purchase of carbon allowances and potential financial penalties. They also risk serious reputational damage with the publication of the scheme’s annual league table comparing the carbon management performances of all participants. Now in its fourth year, the CRC Energy Efficiency Summit aims to provide an important platform for stakeholders and policy-makers to meet and discuss the development of this scheme. Now with the CRC’s launch, this event will offer participants practical advice updates and case studies to help manage the risks and maximize the opportunities associated with this complex legislation. More…
Workshop – ‘Introduction to Systematic Review’
14th July 2010: Environment Centre for Wales, Bangor.
To meet the demand for training in systematic review methodology generated by recent calls for systematic reviews (SR) in environmental management (DFID, NERC Knowledge Exchange), the Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation (CEBC) is beginning a series of training workshops, accredited by the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence. The first workshop in the series, entitled ‘Introduction to Systematic Review’ is a one day event aimed at a wide audience ranging from review commissioners, stakeholders, potential authors and anyone interested in finding out more about the methodology, purpose and uses of SR in environmental management. The workshop will present an overview of SR, its applications and an introduction to the methodology involved. Examples and exercises will be incorporated to illustrate the usefulness of SRs as a key part of the evidence-based approach. Participants will leave with an understanding of the key elements of a SR, guidance on question formulation for a SR and information on further, follow-on, methodology training and mentorship packages offered by CEBC. More…
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Online
FCRN ‘Debate’ Website
The Food Climate Research Network (FCRN) has developed a new website - Debate (http://debate.fcrn.org.uk) – which seeks to stimulate and host discussion amongst FCRN members. With 1600 members from a wide diversity of sectors and holding a wealth of expertise and experience, this aims to provide an opportunity to share ideas and work collaboratively to take forward thinking on food and climate change. They have currently created two sets of forums to hold debates about separate topics, including: (a) Discussion issues associated with own grown foods, aquaculture and climate change, and behaviour change; and (b) forums about reviews, resources and conference feedback. More…
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New Publications
IIED Report – ‘Conservation and human rights: the need for international standards’
Conservation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. This report illustrates the growing awareness in recent years of the relationship of international conservation practice to indigenous peoples and local communities, and especially the links between conservation and human rights. The impacts protected areas can have on rural communities – such as evictions and lost access to natural resources – are now under particular scrutiny. Concern is meanwhile rising over the human rights implications of some climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. Yet awareness is also growing of the positive contributions of nature conservation to the rights of people to secure their livelihoods, enjoy healthy and productive environments, and live with dignity. International NGOs can play a central role in supporting and promoting conservation actions that respect the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, and help sustain their livelihoods. Many conservation organisations have long worked towards this. This report emphasises the importance of holding on to consistent principles and implementing measures that ensure their application, so that action on conservation remains accountable, transparent and sustainable. More…
IIED Report – ‘Social assessment of conservation initiatives’
Despite widely voiced concerns about some of the negative implications of protected areas, and growing pressures to ensure that they fulfil social as well as ecological objectives, no standard methods exist to assess social impacts. This publication reviews some 30 tools and methods for assessing social impacts in protected areas and elsewhere, with a view to understanding how different researchers have tackled the various challenges associated with impact assessment. This experience is used to inform a framework for a standardised process that intends to guide the design of locally appropriate assessment methodologies. Such a standard process is believed to facilitate robust, objective comparisons between sites. More…
EEA Report – ‘10 Messages for 2010: Urban Ecosystems’
Ever since life first appeared on Earth, plants and animals have been closely linked to their natural habitats. A species' survival depends not only on its own ability to adapt but often on that of its cohabitants. After all, the disappearance of one species or arrival of another in an ecosystem could mean less food or more predators. Unfortunately, human activity, mainly our consumption of natural resources, is causing an unprecedented decline in global biodiversity. Cities, as the home to many species, are ecosystems in their own right. They consume, transform and release material and energy. They develop, adapt and interact with other ecosystems. Unlike other ecosystems, however, cities are our primary habitat: three out of four Europeans live in urban areas. Many city dwellers associate green spaces with higher quality of life, but the importance of urban green spaces does not stop at recreation. They also filter large amounts of water after heavy rainfall and soften the effects of heat waves or other extreme events. The new EEA assessment on urban ecosystems — the sixth in a series of '10 messages for 2010' — reveals that with the right policies and tools, urbanisation does not need to be a threat to biodiversity in cities and beyond. More…
UN Report – ‘Trends in Sustainable Development: Towards Sustainable Consumption and Production 2010-2011’
This report highlights trends in resource extraction and use as well as key stresses on the world's ecosystems and life-support systems to which human activities are contributing. It shows trends in the key drivers of such stresses including: population growth; urbanization; globalization; and, rising affluence. It then highlights major policy and voluntary initiatives which have been designed to move economies and societies towards sustainable patterns of consumption and production, illustrating with cases from around the world. Finally, it examines trends in technology and finance and what their contribution can be to putting economies on a more sustainable path. More…
CDF Guidance – ‘Making the case for community development’
The Community Development Foundation has put together a new, free guidance paper, which aims to assist community development practitioners or those working in the public sector in demonstrating the contribution of CD work in achieving public sector objectives. It aims to help keep CD alive by enabling people to prove its impact in a language that will resonate with those in charge of local authority decision making. The authors recognise that the government agenda will change but they anticipate that the focus in this guide on the core themes of satisfaction, inspection and value for money will remain largely the same. More…
New Book – ‘Innovative CSR: From risk management to value creation’
By and large, corporations of the 21st century have come to realise that their obligations to societies in terms of corporate social responsibility are fourfold: economic, ethical, altruistic and strategic. Meeting these four responsibilities is crucial to their survival in their various markets and industries; it also requires them to rewrite their previously less socially responsible business models in order to do so. Corporations have equally realised that by being innovative in all things - including their CSR activities and initiatives - they will add value to the so-called bottom line, to the positive contributions they make to society and to how they are perceived by their key stakeholders. However, many criticisms have been made of CSR in its current form, often related to the lack of value that it generates within the enterprise and the fact that it offers only a partial and short-term response to the full challenges of sustainable development. This book argues that the time has come to shift the CSR focus away from risk management towards a more progressive and entrepreneurial approach that seeks to create value and identify sustainable opportunities for strategic innovation. More…
New Book – ‘How to live a low carbon life: Second edition’
This book emphasises that a drastic reduction of carbon emissions is vital if we are to avoid a catastrophe that devastates large parts of the world. It argues that, since governments and businesses have been slow to act, individuals need to take the lead if we are to avoid climate chaos. Included in the book are findings such as: the best single way to save electricity is to buy a new fridge; precious metals (jewellery, gifts etc) have a carbon footprint thousands of times their weight; natural clothing fibres (wool, cotton, viscose) are worse for emissions than man-made fibres; electricity demand in the home hasn’t been affected by the recession (the growth in the number of appliances has matched all the efficiency gains of the last few years); about a fifth of UK emissions are embedded in imported manufactured goods; airplanes have lower emissions per person, per mile than cars but they travel huge distances; the easiest ways to cut emissions are probably 1) to stop flying and b) to become a vegetarian and c) only buy second-hand clothes. More…
DEMOS Report – ‘Resilient Places: Character and community in everyday heritage’
Towns, cities and landscapes are haunted by the ghosts of networks past. Disused railways, old routeways and quiet canals remain leftovers from the industry and commerce of the past. Too often, these are dismissed as outdated or as the parochial interests of a few. In contrast, this pamphlet by Demos argues that the heritage infrastructure of the public realm can play an important part in addressing the challenges of today. Infrastructural networks shape the way that we think about place. They govern the way that we connect to our physical environment and how places within it connect with one another. The networks of the past comprise a visible and everyday heritage that people can adapt and to which they can respond. Railways, canals, sewers and industrial routeways can be reappraised, repurposed and reused to meet emerging and future needs. In a world in which financial and material resources are short, this pamphlet examines detailed examples of how communities, businesses and local government have come together to make use of heritage infrastructure, and looks at lessons that they might hold more generally. It highlights that the recession need not lead to a halt in development: it can prompt us to alter practice and behaviours. More…
WRI Report – ‘A seat at the table: Including the poor in decisions for development and environment’
Decisions that have significant environmental and social consequences are often made without the involvement of those whose interests are directly at stake. For poor people whose lives and livelihoods often depend on natural resources, and who are therefore most vulnerable to environmental risks, the consequences of exclusion can be especially severe. Weak access to decision-making may expose poor communities to high levels of pollution, remove them from productive land, and deprive them of the everyday benefits provided by natural resources. To better understand the obstacles to access facing the poor, and the efforts by governments to reach this population, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and its civil society organization (CSO) partners in The Access Initiative (TAI) closely examined access rights and practices in four countries - Cameroon, Paraguay, Philippines, and Sri Lanka. The case studies highlighted in this report cover a range of environmental concerns including water quality, land use, data availability, and the use or absence of environmental impact assessments (EIAs). The findings and literature review show that the poor in these countries face a daunting array of barriers to access, including low literacy, high costs (including the costs of corruption), exposure to risk from participation, and lack of documentation of legal identity or rights to a resource that is necessary to influence decisions. Additionally, cultural norms that limit who may speak in public disproportionately exclude the poor. Six poverty-related barriers to access to decision-making are identified and eight categories of policy responses proposed to overcome these barriers. Importantly, a general lack of access to information for all citizens had a commensurately larger impact on access to information for the poor. More…
New Report – ‘MINDSPACE: Influencing behaviour through public policy’
This report, produced by the Institute for Government and Cabinet Office, explores how behaviour change theory can help to meet current policy challenges, such as how to reduce crime, tackle obesity, or ensure environmental sustainability. Today's policy-makers are in the business of influencing behaviour. They need to understand the effects their policies may be having. The aim of MINDSPACE is to help them do this and so get better outcomes for the public and society. The authors argue that new insights from science and behaviour change could lead to significantly improved outcomes, and at a lower cost, than the way many conventional policy tools are used. More…
New Book – ‘Innovative approaches to researching landscape and health’
Our modern lifestyles often cause us to spend more time sitting behind a desk than being active outdoors. At the same time, our general health is deteriorating. The alarming rise in obesity, sedentary lifestyles and mental ill-health across the developed world has resulted in an urgent desire to understand how the environment, in particular the outdoor environment, influences health. This book addresses the growing interest in salutogenic environments - landscapes that support healthy lifestyles and promote well-being – and the need for innovative methods to research them. Drawing on multidisciplinary approaches from environmental psychology, health sciences, urban design, landscape architecture and horticulture, it questions how future research can be better targeted to inform policy and practice in health promotion. More…
New Book – ‘Engaging Environmental Education: Learning, culture and agency’
As more attention is devoted to the increasing and complex socio-ecological issues facing the planet, new insights and new ways of thinking are being sought about the learning and agency of children and adults in relation to these environmental concerns. The contributors to this book seek to address the critically important dual challenge of making environmental education engaging while engaging individuals, institutions and communities. Rather than treating students and citizens as passive recipients of other people’s knowledge, the book highlights the importance of engaging learners as active agents in thinking about and constructing a more sustainable and equitable quality of life. The case studies emphasize socio-cultural approaches to environmental learning within and outside formal education in a diverse range of international contexts, including Canada, Denmark, Korea, the Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. The authors not only illuminate the challenges and complexity of engaging youth and adults in meaningful learning, as well as informed action, on complex environmental issues, but also document and offer important insights into promising ways in which these challenges might be addressed. More…
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Jobs and Training
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