This book examines the difficult and wide-ranging issues relating to how we understand our environment, 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 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.

Areas explored include the policy context, the links between sustainable development and learning, the economic and moral interdependence of humans and nature, the management, assessment and evaluation of learning, and globalisation. The book suggests ways in which those responsible for learning can target their efforts appropriately, matching straightforward solutions to simple problems, and designing complex interventions only where these are needed.

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. Though a free-standing text, its analysis is supported by a companion reader: Key Issues in Sustainable Development and Learning: a critical review.

Reviews

'It is also full of academic rigour and extensive references making it suitable for Masters students, and others who want to work through the book and gain a detailed understanding of the issues in a well-ordered and logical structure ... Specifically it should be read by those with an interest in the environment, sustainable development or values in education.' - Cathy Growney, University of Surrey Roehampton (escalate website)

'Scott and Gough have produced a very fine work that introduces new and more meaningful notions and practices of sustainable development; it should ... be widely read and its recommendations should be incorporated across the disciplines.' - Ali A. Abdi, University of Alberta, Canada

Book Information
ISBN 9780415276481
Author Stephen Gough
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 294g