Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development

Therese Hume, John Barry

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Abstract

This article attempts a broad characterization of environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD), and includes a short overview of the history of the field, key debates, the main approaches to ESD and EE, and a look toward the future. However, such a brief account should not be considered to be fully comprehensive, and can only be considered to provide a broad overview of the field from the authors' perspectives.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition
PublisherElsevier Inc.
Pages733-739
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9780080970875
ISBN (Print)9780080970868
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Mar 2015

Keywords

  • Education for a sustainable future (ESF)
  • Education for sustainability (EfS)
  • Education for sustainable development (ESD)
  • Environmental education (EE)
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Resilience
  • Social-ecological systems
  • Unsustainability

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