William Scott and Stephen Gough ; with a foreword by Sir Neil Chalmers.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
RoutledgeFalmer,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2003.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xviii, 173 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-159) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Foreword / Neil Chalmers -- 1. Framing the issues: complexity, uncertainty, risk and necessity -- 2. The policy context -- 3. Language and meaning -- 4. Learning and sustainable development: making the linkages -- 5. Humans and nature: tensions and interdependence -- 6. Theory and practice: ideology and philosophy -- 7. Management of learning: issues in curriculum design -- 8. Curriculum and pedagogy -- 9. Measuring learning: aspects of assessment -- 10. Measuring effectiveness: monitoring and evaluation -- 11. Building capacity, developing agency: evolving a theory of change -- 12. Economic behaviour: value and values -- 13. Globalisation and fragmentation: science and self -- 14. What happens next?
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This book examines the difficult and wide-ranging issues relating to how we understand our environment, and our place in it, and how we choose to act." "This comprehensive text provides an overview of these developing key issues, illustrating how - through schooling, higher education, professional training and development, and awareness-raising - people can bring about change, as well as engaging in debate and critique of the issues. The book builds on existing work across a number of fields, as well as on original international research, in order to model the complexity of the problems, the institutional contexts in which they arise, and the interrelationships between these." "This text will be a valuable resource for anyone studying Masters degrees and MBAs that focus on environment or sustainable development, and for professionals dealing with problems on a day-to-day basis."--Jacket.