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Author : Karin Ulbrich
Release : 2010
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Book Rating : 379/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Biodiversity in education for sustainable development - reflection on school-research cooperation by : Karin Ulbrich
Download or read book Biodiversity in education for sustainable development - reflection on school-research cooperation written by Karin Ulbrich. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paula Castro
Release : 2016-05-26
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 180/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Biodiversity and Education for Sustainable Development by : Paula Castro
Download or read book Biodiversity and Education for Sustainable Development written by Paula Castro. This book was released on 2016-05-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers interdisciplinary reflections from researchers, educators, and other experts on the subject of biodiversity closer to education and learning. The book also highlights its role as an added value to strategic principles for healthy ecosystems and sustainable human development. It promotes critical thinking and foster practices and attitudes for Education for Sustainable Development reconciling education with principles of human behaviour and nature. Readers especially find this book a timely resource in light of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, the Aichi Targets, and the new EU biodiversity strategy “Our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020”. Along with the challenge of ecosystems and public health, biodiversity conservation is essential for humanity’s continued security and sustainability, as it touches on all aspects of people’s lives.
Author : Herner Saeverot
Release : 2021-11-22
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 805/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation by : Herner Saeverot
Download or read book Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation written by Herner Saeverot. This book was released on 2021-11-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation is the first book of its kind to provide an educational and systematic analysis of problems and solutions regarding the most pressing threats that humankind is facing. The book makes a case for the importance of education responding to significant threats; including climate change, pandemics, decline in global biodiversity, overpopulation, egoism, ideologies, nuclear, biological and chemical warfare, inequality, artificial intelligence, and ignorance and the distortion of truth. Written by leading experts in their field based on cutting-edge research, the chapters explore these issues and offer suggestions for how education can address these problems in the future. This groundbreaking and highly topical book will be an essential reading for academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of education research, environmental studies, educational politics and organizational management.
Author : M. Lakshmi Narasaiah
Release : 2005
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 456/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Biodiversity and Sustainable Development by : M. Lakshmi Narasaiah
Download or read book Biodiversity and Sustainable Development written by M. Lakshmi Narasaiah. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Biodiversity, Living with Diversity, Saving the Planet, Population and the Environment, Ecosystems, Our Unknown Protectors, Climate Change and Human Health, Population Growth and Climate Change, Economics and Sustainable Development, Urbanization and the Environment, Sustainable Cities, Fresh Water and the Environment, Forests, Towards Healthy Cities, Global Warming, Money Alone is not Enough, Tourism and the Environment, Energy and Sustainability, Cities Residents to the Rescue, Children s Health and the Environment, Ecotourism or Ecocide? Sustainable Tourism Development, Economics and Environment, Population Growth and Energy, Population Growth and Urbanization, Population Growth and Waste, Using Economics to Advantage, Water, Solutions for a Water-Short World, Living with Leviathan, An Agenda for Change, Sustainable Tourism and the Environment, Big-Dam Construction is on the Rise, Population Growth and Fresh Water, Population Growth and Natural Recreation Areas, Development of Sericulture, The Do s and Don ts of Risk Reduction, Consuming the Future, Crisis Prevention, Crisis and New Orientation of Development Policy, Aid Effectiveness as a Multi-Level Process, The Dematerialisation of the World Economy, What s Driving Migration, Not Yet Fossil Fuel.
Author : Martin Kappas
Release : 2019-04-10
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Book Rating : 848/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Education, Science and Cooperation for Sustainable Development and Biodiversity Conservation by : Martin Kappas
Download or read book Education, Science and Cooperation for Sustainable Development and Biodiversity Conservation written by Martin Kappas. This book was released on 2019-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Alumni Summer School 2018 on 'Education, science and cooperation between German Alumni for sustainable development and biodiversity conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa' was jointly organized by the Faculty of Geography-Department of Cartography, GIS and Remote Sensing, the Faculty of Biology and Psychology-Department of Conservation Biology, and the Karatina University, Kenya - School of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies. This summer school was funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and targeted to the German Alumni from Sub-Saharan Africa as well as scientist and experts from various discipline. The European Union being confronted with mass migration from Sub-Saharan Africa is currently working on a new political and economic strategy for Africa. Moreover German Government initiated and proposed a new level of equal cooperation between Africa and western countries in areas such as education, trade, business development and energy. The main idea is to limit the effects of climate change and avoid climate refugees, to prevent mass migration and to help create a future for Africa's youth', and underscores the current status and efforts of German development policy towards African countries. Sub-Saharan Africa comprises of 49 states with the highest population growth, and by the end of the 21st century the population is likely to triple. The average economic growth rate for Sub-Saharan Africa countries slowed down from 5.1% in 2010 to 1.4 % in 2016. Africa is still the world's poorest continent and widespread poverty is the primary cause of malnutrition and health problems. Catastrophes like famines and the recent hunger in Horn of Africa are additionally induced through climate change and land grabbing. Corruption, armed conflict, political and ethnic tension, terrorist activities, unstable state structures, national debt, dependence on global commodities markets, and inequitable world trade mechanisms are mainly responsible for th
