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Can I read Education and Climate Change on EtoBox?
Education and Climate Change by Sue L.T. McGregor is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Education and Climate Change about?
With a foreword by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate, this book has an auspicious start. Tutu's message is that ''climate change is a global social justice issue.. Failure to confront climate change head on amounts to a potential fatal complacency,'' a situation forestalled by examining ''the part education can play in effecting climate change mitigation not adaptation'' (p.xvi). Sefa Dei (Chapter 5) agrees that the climate change education is inherently linked with questions of power, social difference, equity and justice. Humanity cannot afford to become complacent about the human condition and its reciprocal links with the ecosystem. Edited by Fumiyo Kagawa and David Selby (affiliated with the Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Plymouth, England), this collection of 12 chapters on the topic of education and climate change is a volume in the Routledge series on Research in Education. The roster of contributors reads like a who's who of world renowned sustainability, environmental, social justice, peace, lifelong learning, interfaith, and global citizenship education thinkers, including: David Selby, Toh Swee-Hin, Darlene Clover, Budd Hall and
Who reads Education and Climate Change?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Environmental Science.
- Author
- Sue L.T. McGregor
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0959-6526)
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)