Education at a Glance

Education at a Glance
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 415
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789264156227

The OECD education indicators enable countries to see themselves in light of other countries performance. They reflect on both the human and financial resources invested in education and on the returns of these investments.

Transformative Approaches to Sustainable Development at Universities

Transformative Approaches to Sustainable Development at Universities
Author: Walter Leal Filho
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2014-10-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319088378

This book documents and disseminates experiences from a wide range of universities, across the five continents, which showcase how the principles of sustainable development may be incorporated as part of university programmes, and present transformatory projects and programmes, showing how sustainability can be implemented across disciplines. Sustainability in a higher education context is a fast growing field. Thousands of universities across the world have signed declarations or have committed themselves to integrate the principles of sustainable development in their activities: teaching, research and extension, and many more will follow.

Biosphere Reserves in the Mountains of the World

Biosphere Reserves in the Mountains of the World
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Biosphere reserves
ISBN: 9783700169680

As model regions for balancing ecological with economic and social needs, biosphere reserves, by involving local stakeholders, are intended to test and develop future-oriented solutions for today's challenges in mountain regions, such as food security, poverty reduction, erosion, global warming and the conservation of biodiversity. However, the challenging task of implementing UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Reserve concept in an ideal manner may be a little over-ambitious. The reality sometimes shows a different picture. In this publication you will find various examples - good and critical ones - of mountain biosphere reserves from all over the world and read about the important roles they play as sites for conserving biodiversity, for international science collaboration, and for enhancing the sustainable use of natural resources.

The Andes

The Andes
Author: Axel Borsdorf
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2015-03-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319035304

The Andes are attracting global interest again: they hold valuable mineral resources, tourists appreciate their great natural beauty and the diversity of indigenous cultures, climbers scale rock and ice faces, while many others are intrigued by regional political developments, such as the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela or the almost unfettered hegemony of the neoliberal economic model in Chile. This volume is the first attempt for decades to present a complete overview of the longest mountain chain on the planet – a region of remarkable climatic, floristic and geologic diversity, where advanced civilization developed well before the arrival of the Spanish. Today the Andes continue to be characterized by their ethnic, demographic, cultural and economic diversity, as well as by the disparity of local socioeconomic groups. The Andean countries pursue a wide range of approaches to tackle the challenges of making the best use of their natural and cultural potential without damaging their ecological basis, as well as to overcome economic disparity and foster social cohesion. This book provides insights into this unique region and its most pressing issues, complemented by a wealth of pictures and comprehensive diagrams, which, in sum, help to better understand these fascinating mountains.

Calidad de vida y bienestar en la vejez

Calidad de vida y bienestar en la vejez
Author: Carlos Freire Rodríguez
Publisher: Ediciones Pirámide
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2016-09-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 8436836251

En consonancia con el nuevo paradigma de envejecimiento activo, las personas mayores pueden experimentar importantes aumentos y mejoras personales. En esta obra se ofrece una visión positiva y optimizadora del envejecimiento, centrándose en los recursos personales que pueden contribuir de forma significativa a que las personas mayores consigan una adaptación óptima a esta etapa. A lo largo del libro se analiza la importancia que adquieren para el bienestar psicológico de las personas mayores factores como la autoaceptación, la autonomía, la percepción de dominio de las demandas contextuales, las relaciones positivas con otras personas, las metas y proyectos vitales personales y el crecimiento personal. El enfoque psicopedagógico adoptado por esta obra hace de ella una herramienta de apoyo para la docencia, pero, por su claridad expositiva y lenguaje sencillo, el manual puede resultar atractivo para todas aquellas personas interesadas en esta etapa del ciclo vital.

Long Term Socio-Ecological Research

Long Term Socio-Ecological Research
Author: Simron Jit Singh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400711778

The authors in this volume make a case for LTSER’s potential in providing insights, knowledge and experience necessary for a sustainability transition. This expertly edited selection of contributions from Europe and North America reviews the development of LTSER since its inception and assesses its current state, which has evolved to recognize the value of formulating solutions to the host of ecological threats we face. Through many case studies, this book gives the reader a greater sense of where we are and what still needs to be done to engage in and make meaning from long-term, place-based and cross-disciplinary engagements with socio-ecological systems.

Encounters with Popular Pasts

Encounters with Popular Pasts
Author: Mike Robinson
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN: 9783319131849

This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage, whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities, as well as re-make "tradition". The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries or just in reproducing new ones? How do societies manage a heritage that is fluid, immediate and that straddles extremes of serious conflict and hedonistic frivolity? When and under what circumstances is the creation and expression of new cultural forms - popular culture - capable of being transformed into heritage?

Sustainability in Higher Education

Sustainability in Higher Education
Author: Peggy F. Barlett
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2013-08-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0262519658

Campus leaders describe how community colleges, publicly funded universities, and private liberal arts colleges across America are integrating sustainability into curriculum, policies, and programs. In colleges and universities across the United States, students, faculty, and staff are forging new paths to sustainability. From private liberal arts colleges to major research institutions to community colleges, sustainability concerns are being integrated into curricula, policies, and programs. New divisions, degree programs, and courses of study cross traditional disciplinary boundaries; Sustainability Councils become part of campus governance; and new sustainability issues link to historic social and educational missions. In this book, leaders from twenty-four colleges and universities offer their stories of institutional and personal transformation. These stories document both the power of leadership—whether by college presidents, faculty, staff, or student activists—and the potential for institutions to redefine themselves. Chapters recount, among other things, how inclusive campus governance helped mobilize students at the University of South Carolina; how a course at the Menominee Nation's tribal college linked sustainability and traditional knowledge; how the president of Furman University convinced a conservative campus community to make sustainability a strategic priority; how students at San Diego State University built sustainability into future governance while financing a LEED platinum-certified student center; and how sustainability transformed pedagogy in a lecture class at Penn State. As this book makes clear, there are many paths to sustainability in higher education. These stories offer a snapshot of what has been accomplished and a roadmap to what is possible. Colleges and Universities Covered Arizona State University • Central College, Iowa • College of the Menominee Nation, Wisconsin • Curriculum for the Bio-region Project, Pacific Northwest • Drury University, Missouri • Emory University, Georgia • Florida A&M University • Furman University, South Carolina • Green Mountain College, Vermont • Kap'olani Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii • Pennsylvania State University • San Diego State University • Santa Clara University, California • Slippery Rock State University, Pennsylvania • Spelman College, Georgia • Unity College, Maine • University of Hawaii–Manoa • University of Michigan • University of South Carolina • University of South Florida • University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh • Warren Wilson College, North Carolina • Yale University

Calidad de vida y envejecimiento: la visión de los mayores sobre sus condiciones de vida

Calidad de vida y envejecimiento: la visión de los mayores sobre sus condiciones de vida
Author: Fermina Rojo Pérez
Publisher: Fundacion BBVA
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2011
Genre: Madrid (Spain)
ISBN: 8492937122

La presente monografía ofrece un análisis del envejecimiento desde la perspectiva del individuo mayor que envejece en casa, a través del conocimiento de las condiciones y de la calidad de vida de esta población. Qué entiende la población mayor por calidad de vida, cómo la evalúa y cuáles son los factores explicativos del nivel de calidad de vida a la edad anciana son los objetivos de esta obra, afrontados a partir del diseño y realización de una encuesta con la inclusión de instrumentos de medida específicos. Otras fuentes de datos han sido los censos de población y vivienda y los padrones de población. El análisis de los datos se ha realizado mediante la aplicación de técnicas de estadística univariante y multivariante; en este sentido, el libro se acompaña de un anexo metodológico donde se recogen los procedimientos estadísticos empleados, y que es accesible a través de la web de la Fundación BBVA. Desde la multidimensionalidad del hecho de envejecer, y bajo un enfoque que considera además de los aspectos normativos también los perceptuales de las condiciones y calidad de vida, esta obra permite conocer las necesidades de la población según envejece y afrontar políticas de acción para mantener al mayor en su entorno habitual de residencia, como expresión de su forma ideal de envejecer, alojarse, relacionarse, participar y compartir. El presente trabajo constituye una herramienta útil, no solo para el contexto geronto-geográfico analizado población mayor residente en vivienda familiar en la Comunidad de Madrid , sino para un ámbito más amplio, por cuanto esta población muestra características comunes con la población mayor residente en comunidad en el conjunto nacional.

Calidad de vida en personas adultas y mayores

Calidad de vida en personas adultas y mayores
Author:
Publisher: Editorial UNED
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2021-07-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 8436277465

En nuestra sociedad, el envejecimiento de la población y la búsqueda por la mejora de la calidad de vida de las personas adultas y mayores es una realidad incuestionable. En esta obra colectiva se abordan, desde la acción socioeducativa y de forma global y especializada, diferentes temáticas de relieve que pretenden garantizar el bienestar de las personas adultas y mayores, así como el logro de una vida plena. El libro se dirige a estudiantes y profesionales del ámbito de educación social, psicología, terapia ocupacional, trabajo social y a todas aquellas personas inquietas e interesadas ante los desafíos que ocurren en esta etapa del ciclo vital. A su vez, la obra es resultado de la participación de varios autores, todos ellos docentes e investigadores procedentes de diferentes universidades que a lo largo de cinco capítulos afrontan aspectos cruciales vinculados al aprendizaje de las personas adultas en la sociedad del conocimiento, la intervención y el desarrollo integral en personas adultas y mayores, la calidad de vida en personas mayores, el envejecimiento activo y saludable y cómo intervenir en personas mayores.