Urban Environmental Education Review
Urban Environmental Education Review

Author: Alex Russ

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2017-06-06

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1501712780

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Urban Environmental Education Review explores how environmental education can contribute to urban sustainability. Urban environmental education includes any practices that create learning opportunities to foster individual and community well-being and environmental quality in cities. It fosters novel educational approaches and helps debunk common assumptions that cities are ecologically barren and that city people don't care for, or need, urban nature or a healthy environment. Topics in Urban Environmental Education Review range from the urban context to theoretical underpinnings, educational settings, participants, and educational approaches in urban environmental education. Chapters integrate research and practice to help aspiring and practicing environmental educators, urban planners, and other environmental leaders achieve their goals in terms of education, youth and community development, and environmental quality in cities. The ten-essay series Urban EE Essays, excerpted from Urban Environmental Education Review, may be found here: naaee.org/eepro/resources/urban-ee-essays. These essays explore various perspectives on urban environmental education and may be reprinted/reproduced only with permission from Cornell University Press.

The Spanish Second Republic Revisited
The Spanish Second Republic Revisited

Author: Manuel Álvarez Tardío

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2013-02-04

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1836242271

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The Spanish Civil War is one of the most studied events in modern European history. This book analyses the main obstacles to the consolidation of democracy in Spain and debates the principal stereotypes of the traditional historiography of both left and right.

The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe
The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe

Author: Dylan Riley

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2019-01-29

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1786635232

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A historical look at the emergence of fascism in Europe Drawing on a Gramscian theoretical perspective and development a systematic comparative approach, The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe: Italy, Spain and Romania 1870-1945 challenges the received Tocquevillian consensus on authoritarianism by arguing that fascist regimes, just like mass democracies, depended on well-organized, rather than weak and atomized, civil societies. In making this argument the book focuses on three crucial cases of inter-war authoritarianism: Italy, Spain and Romania, selected because they are all counter-intuitive from the perspective of established explanations, while usefully demonstrating the range of fascist outcomes in interwar Europe. Civic Foundations argues that, in all three cases, fascism emerged because the rapid development of voluntary associations combined with weakly developed political parties among the dominant class thus creating a crisis of hegemony. Riley then traces the specific form that this crisis took depending on the form of civil society development (autonomous- as in Italy, elite dominated as in Spain, or state dominated as in Romania) in the nineteenth century.

Education for Sustainable Development
Education for Sustainable Development

Author: Klas Sandell

Publisher: Studentlitteratur AB

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9789144033778

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This textbook aims at making a contribution towards advancing the necessary knowledge and skills required in order to teach on the subject of sustainable development. This includes developing the ability to make conscious choices among the available alternatives in teaching contents and methods in such a way as to expand and deepen students perspectives on sustainable development. Part I of the book presents the history of humankinds interaction with the natural world from the hunter-gatherer period up to the industrial societies of today. There is also a particular focus on how current environmental commitment has evolved, transformed and intensified over the years. Part II focuses on four current ways of putting environmental and developmental issues into perspective: An ecological perspective on what characterises the natural world; an environmentally ethical perspective on the different ways of morally relating to the natural world; a political perspective on environmental and developmental issues; and an economical perspective applied as a means of achieving sustainable development. Part III deals with educational aspects including: A comparison between Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and other traditions within Environmental Education; a discussion on the democratic role of education; a perspective on the learning process; a presentation of a teaching perspective on ESD; and finally a study of the practical implications of ESD.

Environmental Education in Protected Areas
Environmental Education in Protected Areas

Author: Cristina Carvalho

Publisher: Parthenon Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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This is an advanced textbook on environmental education in protected areas with major chapters on protected areas in Wales, Germany, Italy, Indonesia, Brazil, and St. Lucia. The book documents ideas, policies, and initiatives promoting environmental education in protected areas with critical appraisals of the advantages and problems from a scientific perspective together with an overview of specific institutional approaches to the matter. Also, it presents a range of perspectives from real-life workers in the field, describing current attempts to promote environmental education in protected areas. This is a volume of ten chapters, opening with an analysis of trends, continuing with the region-specific examples, and closing with chapters on ways to improve support for protected areas, the contribution of the Man and Biosphere Program (MAB), the purpose of protected areas in conservation, and considerations related to environmental education in protected areas. Includes bibliographic references and index.