Learning, Natural Capital and Sustainable Development (eBook, ePUB)

Options for an Uncertain World
Redaktion: Foster, John; Gough, Stephen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This special issue of the journal Environmental Education Research addresses a topical area of importance - human behaviour towards the environment. The book explores the economic metaphor of 'natural capital' in this context arguing that the currently dominant model of sustainable development, underpinned by a particular understanding of this metaphor, is impeding progress towards genuine sustainability, and secondly that it will continue to do so until the metaphor can be reworked in both thought and practice.

This book explores an alternative economic model of natural capital value, based on recent 'real options' thinking which reworks the natural capital idea and provides a framework for articulating two major and closely-related shifts of emphasis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317998723
• Artikelnr.: 57100721

Autorenporträt

John Foster is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Lancaster., Stephen Gough is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment at the University of Bath.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Learning
natural capital and sustainable development: exploring the connections
John Foster
Stephen Gough; Chapter 2 Uncertainty
environmental policy and social learning
Robin Grove-White; Chapter 3 Making sense of stewardship: metaphorical thinking and the environment
John Foster; Chapter 4 What does 'natural capital' do? The role of metaphor in economic understanding of the environment
Maria Åkerman; Chapter 5 Environmental learning
metaphors and natural capital
Derek R. Bell; Chapter 6 Education for Sustainable Development
natural capital and sustainability: Learning to Last
John Blewitt; Chapter 7 Natural capital: hard economics
soft metaphor?
Adrian Winnett; Chapter 8 Rethinking the natural capital metaphor: implications for education and learning
Stephen Gough; Chapter 9 Options
sustainability policy and the spontaneous order
John Foster;