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Title
Biodiversity and education for sustainable development [electronic resource] / Paula Castro, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Paula Bacelar-Nicolau, Walter Leal Filho, Anabela Marisa Azul, editors.
ISBN
9783319323183 (electronic book)
3319323180 (electronic book)
9783319323176
Published
Switzerland : Springer, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
QH541.15.B56
Dewey Decimal Classification
577
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 7, 2016).
Series
World sustainability series.
Biodiversity and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): Tendencies and Perspectives
Conservation of Biological Resources: Why it Matters
Urban Biodiversity and Cities' Sustainable Development
Education on Biodiversity in the Polar Regions
Teaching Mycology Worldwide
Bugs and Society
Science and Education at the Centre for Invasion Biology
Engaging Society to Fight Invasive Alien Plants in Portugal
One of the Main Threats to Biodiversity
Engaging ODL Students with Biodiversity Issues: A South African Case Study on the Role of ESD
Education for Sustainability in the Context of Community Forestry.