The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy

The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy
Author: Arran Stibbe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1907448659

A vital resource for sustainability educators, learners and decision-makers on how we can build a more sustainable future. In this ground-breaking book, leading sustainability educators are joined by permaculturists, literary critics, ecologists, artists, journalists, engineers, mathematicians and philosophers in a deep reflection on the skills that people need to survive and thrive in the challenging conditions of the 21st century. Responding to the threats of climate change, peak oil, resource depletion, economic uncertainty and energy insecurity demands the utmost in creativity, ingenuity and new ways of thinking to reinvent self and society. Among the many skills, attributes and values described in The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy are values reflection, coping with complexity, permaculture design, transition skills, advertising awareness, effortless action, and ecological intelligence, each accompanied by ideas for active learning exercises to help develop the skill. Far from being a rigid or definitive statement of the one right way however, the handbook is exploratory, aiming to open up new, unthought-of paths, possibilities and choices. With contributors including John Naish, Satish Kumar, Patrick Whitefield, John Blewitt, Stephan Harding and Stephen Sterling, this is intended for educators, learners and anyone else interested in the vital issue of the skills we need to survive and thrive in the 21st century and build a more sustainable future.

Smart by Nature

Smart by Nature
Author: Michael K. Stone
Publisher: Contemporary Issues (Watershed
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780970950048

"Describes strategies for greening the campus and the curriculum, conducting environmental audits, rethinking school food, and transforming schools into models of sustainable community"-- P. [4] of cover.

International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education

International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education
Author: Robert B. Stevenson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2013-05-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136699317

The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages between the environment, health, development, and education. The growth in scholarship makes this an opportune time to review and synthesize the knowledge base of the environmental education (EE) field. The purpose of this 51-chapter handbook is not only to illuminate the most important concepts, findings and theories that have been developed by EE research, but also to critically examine the historical progression of the field, its current debates and controversies, what is still missing from the EE research agenda, and where that agenda might be headed. Published for the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Storytelling for Sustainability in Higher Education

Storytelling for Sustainability in Higher Education
Author: Petra MOLTHAN-HILL
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-04-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367260262

To be a storyteller is an incredible position from which to influence hearts and minds, and each one of us has the capacity to utilise storytelling for a sustainable future. This book offers unique and powerful insights into how stories and storytelling can be utilized within Higher Education to support sustainability literacy. Stories can shape our perspective of the world around us and how we interact with it and this is where storytelling becomes a useful tool for facilitating understanding of sustainability concepts which tend to be complex and multi-faceted. The craft of storytelling is as old as time and has influenced human experience throughout the ages. The conscious use of storytelling in Higher Education is likewise not new though less prevalent in certain academic disciplines; what this book offers is the opportunity to delve into the concept of storytelling as an educational tool regardless of and beyond the boundaries of subject area. Written by academics and storytellers, the book is based on the authors' own experiences of using stories within teaching, from a story of "the Ecology of Law" to the exploration of sustainability in Accounting and Finance via contemporary cinema. Practical advice in each chapter ensures that ideas may be put into practice with ease. In addition to examples from the classroom, the book also explores wider uses of storytelling for communication and sense-making and ways of assessing student storytelling work. It also offers fascinating research insights, for example in addressing the question of whether positive utopian stories relating to climate change will have a stronger impact on changing the behaviour of readers than dystopian stories. Everyone who is working as an educator should find some inspiration here for their own practice; on using storytelling and stories to co-design positive futures together with our students.

Sustainability

Sustainability
Author: Tom Theis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781680921533

With "Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation," first and second-year college students are introduced to this expanding new field, comprehensively exploring the essential concepts from every branch of knowldege - including engineering and the applied arts, natural and social sciences, and the humanities. As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study, the text is the product of multiple authors drawn from the diverse faculty of the University of Illinois: each chapter is written by a recognized expert in the field.

Envisioning Environmental Literacy

Envisioning Environmental Literacy
Author: Wei-Ta Fang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2020-07-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 981157006X

This book bridges the gap between two critical issues—environmental literacy and social norms – and explores various topics and case studies from Sinophone and Taiwanese perspectives. Each chapter includes extensive information on pro-environmental behaviors, and on people with working experiences, home experiences, and actual philosophies in their daily lives. In keeping with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this book highlights our potential to contribute to social inclusion and environmental protection, and offers a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, practitioners, and entrepreneurs in environmental education and related disciplines.

The Business Student's Guide to Sustainable Management

The Business Student's Guide to Sustainable Management
Author: Petra Molthan-Hill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2017-11-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351286269

Aimed at undergraduates, this is the first textbook to offer a full introduction to sustainable management, covering all subject areas relevant to business students. The book includes chapters and seminars on subjects such as: Corporate Sustainable Strategy; Sustainable Marketing; Sustainability Reporting; Supply Chain Management; Human Resources Management: Supporting Sustainable Business; Environmental Economics; Sustainable Operations Management; Greenhouse Gas Management and System Thinking in Sustainable Management. The book contains nearly 30 ready-made seminars employing various teaching methods. Each chapter follows the same, easy-to-use format. This book provides a true treasure chest of materials to support staff wanting to integrate sustainability into their teaching and provides support to effectively embed sustainability in the curriculum. The chapters also offer a starting point in developing teaching units for Masters and MBA students. The material is not just useful to people in business schools, but to those involved in wider scale curriculum change, and those looking to make links between different disciplines.

Education and Corporate Social Responsibility

Education and Corporate Social Responsibility
Author: Jamilah Ahmad
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2013-02-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1781905908

This volume examines the practice of embedding corporate social responsibility into academic curricula.

Handbook of Sustainability in Management Education

Handbook of Sustainability in Management Education
Author: Jorge A. Arevalo
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 705
Release: 2017-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1785361244

This Handbook strives to enhance knowledge and application within sustainability in management education (SiME) across different academic programs, geographic regions and personal/professional contexts. Cross-disciplinary and boundary-spanning, this book focuses on specific themes and is therefore split into four distinct sections: one on theory and practice, one on transformational interventions in business programs, one on the role of external agents and the last on innovative approaches in SiME.

Research in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability

Research in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability
Author: Julie Davis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2014-06-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317663616

Sustainability is a global issue that urgently needs addressing, and for which the most serious consequences are for children and future generations. This insightful research text tackles one of the most significant contemporary issues of our times – the nexus between society and environment – and how early childhood education can contribute to sustainable living. By offering international and multidisciplinary research perspectives on Early Childhood Education for Sustainability, each chapter explores and investigates the complex topic of sustainability and its relationship to early childhood education. A particular emphasis that runs through this text is young children as empowered citizens, capable of both contributing to and creating change for sustainability. The chapter authors work from, or are aligned with, a transformative education paradigm that suggests the socio-constructivist frameworks currently underpinning Early Childhood Education require reframing in light of the social transformations necessary to address humanity’s unsustainable, unjust and unhealthy living patterns. This research text is designed to be provocative and challenging; in so doing it seeks to encourage exploration of current understandings about Early Childhood Education for Sustainability, offers new dimensions for more deeply informed practice, and proposes avenues for further research in this field.