Biodiversity and Education for Sustainable Development (1st ed. 2016) (World Sustainability Series)

By: Walter Leal Filho and Ulisses M. Azeiteiro and Paula Castro and Paula Bacelar-Nicolau and Anabela Marisa Azul

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783319323183
Related ISBNs:: 9783319323176
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 09/18/19
Copyrighted By:: Springer International Publishing, Cham
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Science, Outdoors and Nature, Education, Earth Sciences, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Paula Castro
Edited by:: Ulisses M. Azeiteiro
Edited by:: Paula Bacelar-Nicolau
Edited by:: Walter Leal Filho
Edited by:: Anabela Marisa Azul