Biodiversity and education for sustainable development [electronic resource] / Paula Castro, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Paula Bacelar-Nicolau, Walter Leal Filho, Anabela Marisa Azul, editors.
Castro, Paula (Castro P.), editor.; Azeiteiro, Ulisses, editor.; Bacelar-Nicolau, Paula, editor.; Leal Filho, Walter, editor.; Azul, Anabela Marisa, editor.
2016
QH541.15.B56
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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.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 7, 2016).
Added Author Castro, Paula (Castro P.), editor.
Azeiteiro, Ulisses, editor.
Bacelar-Nicolau, Paula, editor.
Leal Filho, Walter, editor.
Azul, Anabela Marisa, editor.
Series World sustainability series.
Available in Other Form Biodiversity and Education for Sustainable Development
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