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Bridging the Civil Society-Academia Gap: Lessons from the Environmental...

        PDF: Emmanuel Nii Noi OsuteyeSpring2013   Abstract: Recent systematic studies of the environmental movement in Ghana have revealed an apparent disconnect between environmentally focused civil...

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The Climate and Development Lab: An Experiment in Engaged Education for...

  PDF: CipletEtAlJSESpring2013 Abstract: This article discusses the evolution and work of Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab (CDL). As leaders of the CDL, we engaged students in...

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Teaching Sustainability through Adventure

  PDF: Henrickson&DoeringJSESpring2013 Abstract: Adventure has been incorporated into sustainability education in a variety of ways, including through outdoor education and, more recently, through...

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Integrating Shared Action Learning into Higher Education for Sustainability

      Abstract: It is widely acknowledged that the sustainability challenges facing the world require new approaches to teaching and learning.  At the community level, however, sustainability...

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Energy information sharing in social networks: The roles of objective...

PDF:  Southwell Brian et al JSE June 2014 Abstract:  As sustainability educators and communication professionals consider various strategies to engage audiences with regard to household energy use,...

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Urban Sprawl: Definitions, Data, Methods of Measurement, and Environmental...

    Full PDF:  Bana & DePriest JSE Vol 7 Dec 2014 Abstract:  Like sprawl itself, writing about sprawl is scattered in a vast multidisciplinary literature. In this paper we provide a map of what is...

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From Kenya With Love

Full PDF:  Gurecki JSE March 2014 Love Issue Abstract: The impacts associated with products such as solar lamps and rain water harvesting tanks often tend to focus on economic, environmental, and...

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Book Review: “The Living Universe: Where Are We, Who Are We, Where Are We...

PDF: DAmore Book Review JSE March 2015 Love Issue PDF Book Review: “The Living Universe: Where Are We, Who Are We, Where Are We Going?” by Duane Elgin   Chiara D’Amore Prescott College...

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Love as a Great Transition Story

PDF: Elgin JSE March 2015 Love Issue Abstract: The stories we tell shape our view of ourselves and the path we take through this time of collective awakening and global turning. We have the ability to...

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What’s Love Got To Do With Transformative Education?

PDF:  Gorman JSE March 2015 Love Issue Abstract: Too much of education, especially following the Western Enlightenment model and its increased use of scientific, quantifiable metrics, has seemed to...

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Education for a Sustainable Future: Benchmarks for Individual and Social...

PDF of Benchmarks document This document is a provisional draft that has emerged out of an initial “State of the Field” issue and database, published in JSE in 2014  and a follow-up conference in...

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Learning for Sustainable Development: Integrating Environmental Education in...

Link to Deepening Our Craft February 2017 JSE TOC Mwendwa JSE Feb 2017 General Issue PDF Abstract The study assesses the extent to which curriculum of secondary schools in Tanzania addresses...

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The Importance of Controversy: Is Education for Sustainable Development Too...

The Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) literature is uplifting, full of fine ideals and the hope of creating a better world.  The values implied are positive, optimistic and democratic;   ESD...

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First, Do No Harm: The Role of Sustainability in the Education of Health...

Whoever would study medicine aright must learn of the following subjects. First he must consider the effect of the seasons of the year and the differences between them. Secondly he must study the warm...

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Toward climate justice: Perspectives on the climate crisis and social change,...

Humankind stands at the cusp of its gravest challenge, and the prospective survival of the species itself hangs in the balance. While there is a clear attempt on the part of many invested in the...

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Sponsoring the Journal of Sustainability Education

Sponsoring the Journal of Sustainability Education The Journal of Sustainability Education is actively seeking partners, sponsors, and donors to collaborate on moving the field of sustainability...

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Bomb Threats, Global Warming and Decision Making: An Educational Experience

Global warming is one of the world’s most argued topics. The majority of people agree that the global warming is real, but the most controversial aspect is whether it is caused by humans or simply part...

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Alpine Tourism in Tropical Africa and Sustainable Development?

SCHOLARLY FEATURE Alpine tourism in the attractive, glaciated highlands of Eastern Africa’s national parks has traditionally been considered an engine of regional development. The major question this...

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Creating a Learning Organization to Promote Sustainable Water Resources...

SCHOLARLY FEATURE Partnerships between universities have the tantalizing possibility of providing fresh pathways to more sustainable societies. Institutions in sub-Saharan Africa are new players in...

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Embedding Education for Sustainability in the School Curriculum: the...

SCHOLARLY FEATURE Embedding education for sustainability, in Faith Based Organisations’ (FBOs) school curricula in Uganda, puzzles. Any progressive education system should be dynamic-always calling for...

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Values and Participation: the role of culture in nature preservation and...

CASE STUDY Decent life depends on nature’s provision of stable resources. In this report I explore cultural efforts embedded within nature preservation and environmental education among the indigenous...

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Children’s Observations of Place-Based Environmental Education: Projects...

        PDF: Rafferty and Laird, Spring 2013 Abstract:  This paper explores the observations and perceptions of school children as they engage with nature through place based environmental...

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A Case Study in Sustainability Experiential Education

PDF: Gleason et al., Spring 2013 Abstract: This article presents a case study of a middle school project based on the experience of two teachers and an administrator.  The project gives 8th grade...

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Sustainability Education, Experiential Learning, and Social Justice:...

                PDF: MarkRitchieJSESpring2013 Abstract: Understanding how we live (culture) and its impact on where we live (ecology) is one of the key issues facing sustainability and sustainability...

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Boyer Plus: Field Study Courses for Sustainable Education

  PDF: Moscovici Spring 2013 Abstract: The field study (or short-term study abroad) creates a successful hybrid of study abroad and field research. These short-term educational adventures...

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If it please the court: Using a simulated trial as the basis for an...

  PDF: N. J. Smith-Sebastospring2013 Abstract: This report describes a unique technique for presenting an introduction to sustainability science course that is both required for sustainability science...

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Curriculum as Bioregional Text: Place, Experience, and Sustainability

  PDF: Hensley spring2013 Abstract: In this article I articulate what it means to understand curriculum as bioregional text. I utilize a theoretical mode of inquiry to explicate the values of...

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Re-engaging Youth through Environmental-based Education for Sustainable...

 PDF: Justin UmholtzSpring2013 Abstract:To live up to UNESCO’s definition of a sustainable development education that empowers youth with the knowledge, attitudes, motivations, commitments, and skills...

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User perceptions of energy consumption in university buildings: A University...

PDF: Whittle&JonesJSESpring2013 Abstract This study investigated the current energy use perceptions and practices of staff and students within five buildings at the University of Sheffield, UK. A...

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Cities and Regions: The Urban Sustainability, Planning, Pedagogy, and...

PDF: BanaiJSESpring2013 Abstract: Two developing strands of a multidisciplinary literature provided an impetus for this paper: 1) the emergence of new regionalism, new urbanism, and smart codes that...

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Seeing Water Through the Trees: Maasai Activists in Kenya Among Indigenous...

Maasai environmental and land-rights activist George Risa Kosen leads a protest in Narok, Kenya, calling on the county and national governments to stop deforestation in the Mau Forest Water Tower....

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“Educating for Water Resilience in the Context of Climate Crisis”—Journal of...

Bielawski Editorial Overview JSE March 2020 Water and Climate Issue PDF Link to JSE March 2020 Water and Climate Issue Table of Contents “The global climate crisis is inextricably linked to water. . ....

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Training community-based journalists for climate change reporting: lessons...

  Link to the JSE April 2020 Ecomedia Literacy Issue Table of Contents Cohen and Joubert JSE April 2020 Ecomedia Literacy PDF   Abstract: Reporting to the public on climate change impacts, adaptation,...

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Vanessa Nakate and Perceptions of Black Student Activists

Link to the General Issue, December 2020 Table of Contents McFadden JSE December 2020 General Issue PDF Student climate activists have become increasingly vocal about the realities of global warming....

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‘Challenge to the South’ Revisited: A Case Study Worldwide of Regional...

Link to the General Issue December 2020, Table of Contents Kolenick JSE December 2020 General Issue PDF Abstract: Three decades ago Julius Nyerere (1990) wrote Challenge to the South. In response to...

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Listening for a Life-Sustaining Society

Mason JSE Climate Change PDF Link to JSE Climate Change Table of Contents   Abstract: After 20 plus years as a sustainability educator, the author had one of those...

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