OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Australia 2007
OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Australia 2007

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2008-03-19

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9264039619

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OECD's periodical review of Australia's environmental policies and programmes. This edition reviews progress since the last review in 1998 and in relation to the 2001 OECD Environmental Strategy.

Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Tourism
Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Tourism

Author: Pierre Benckendorff

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2017-01-27

Total Pages: 679

ISBN-13: 1784714801

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This comprehensive Handbook provides an international perspective on contemporary issues and future directions in teaching and learning in tourism. Key topics include assurance of learning, development of skills, learning in the field, work integrated learning, sustainability and critical studies, internationalisation, technology enabled learning, links between teaching and research, and graduate student supervision. Within these topics attention is devoted to the discussion of curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, students, educators and trends and issues. The Handbook provides a valuable resource for understanding teaching and learning theory and practice in tourism.

A National Review of Environmental Education and Its Contribution to Sustainability in Australia: Business & industry education
A National Review of Environmental Education and Its Contribution to Sustainability in Australia: Business & industry education

Author: Daniella Tilbury

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781864089950

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The intention of this study is to provide a snapshot of Environmental Education and its contribution to sustainability across a number of sectors within Australia. The study has resulted in a series of documents prepared by the Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability (ARIES) for the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage.

Searching for Resilience in Sustainable Development
Searching for Resilience in Sustainable Development

Author: John Blewitt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1136270949

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Resilience is a term that is gaining currency in conservation and sustainable development, though its meaning and value in this context is yet to be defined. Searching for Resilience in Sustainable Development examines ways in which resilience may be created within the web of ecological, socio-economic and cultural systems that make up the world in. The authors embark upon a learning journey exploring both robust and fragile systems and asking questions of groups and individuals actively involved in building or maintaining resilience. Through a series of wide ranging interviews the authors give voice to the many different approaches to thinking of and building resilience that may otherwise stay rooted in and confined by specific disciplinary, professional or spatial contexts. The book documents emerging trends, shifting tactics and future pathways for the conservation and sustainable development movement post Rio+20, arriving at a set of diverse but connected conclusions and questions in relation to the resilience of people and planet. This book is ideal for students and researchers working in the fields of conservation, sustainable development, education, systems thinking and development studies. It will also be of great interest to NGOs and government officers whose interests and responsibilities focus on conserving or reconstructing biodiversity and system resilience.

Tourism, Health, Wellbeing and Protected Areas
Tourism, Health, Wellbeing and Protected Areas

Author: Iride Azara

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2018-05-14

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1786391317

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Around the world, there is mounting evidence that parks and protected areas contribute to a healthy civil society, thus increasing the economic importance of cultural and nature-based tourism. Operating at the intersection of business and the environment, tourism can improve human health and wellbeing as well as serve as a catalyst for increasing appreciation and stewardship of the natural world. While the revenues from nature-based activities help to make the case for investing in park and protected area management; the impacts they have need to be carefully managed, so that visitors do not destroy the natural wonders that attracted them to a destination in the first place. This book features contributions from tourism and recreation researchers and practitioners exploring the relationship between tourism, hospitality, protected areas, livelihoods and both physical and emotional human wellbeing. The book includes sections focused on theory, policy and practice, and case studies, to inform and guide industry decisions to address real-world problems and proactively plan for a sustainable and healthy future.

Sustainability in Higher Education
Sustainability in Higher Education

Author: J. Paulo Davim

Publisher: Chandos Publishing

Published: 2015-08-24

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0081003757

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Support in higher education is an emerging area of great interest to professors, researchers and students in academic institutions. Sustainability in Higher Education provides discussions on the exchange of information between different aspects of sustainability in higher education. This book includes chapter contributions from authors who have provided case studies on various areas of education for sustainability. - Focus on sustainability - Present studies in aspects related with higher education - Explores a variety of educational aspects from an sustainable perspective