Handbook of Sustainability Literacy : Skills for a Changing World.
Title:
Handbook of Sustainability Literacy : Skills for a Changing World.
Author:
Stibbe, Arran.
ISBN:
9781907448645
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (226 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Skills for a Changing World -- Chapter 1: Ecocriticism -- Chapter 2: Optimisation -- Chapter 3: Grounded Economic Awareness -- Chapter 4: Advertising Awareness -- Chapter 5: Transition Skills -- Chapter 6: Commons Thinking -- Chapter 7: Effortless Action -- Chapter 8: Permaculture Design -- Chapter 9: Community Gardening -- Chapter 10: Ecological Intelligence -- Chapter 11: Systems Thinking -- Chapter 12: Gaia Awareness -- Chapter 13: Futures Thinking -- Chpater 14: Values Reflection and the Earth Charter -- Chapter 15: Social Conscience -- Chapter 16: New Media Literacy -- Chapter 17: Cultural Literacy -- Chapter 18: Carbon Capability -- Chapter 19: Greening Business -- Chapter 20: Materials Awareness -- Chapter 21: Appropriate Technology and Appropriate Design -- Chapter 22: Technology Appraisal -- Chapter 23: Complexity, Systems Thinking and Practice -- Chapter 24: Coping with Complexity -- Chapter 25: Emotional Well-being -- Chapter 26: Finding Meaning without Consuming -- Chapter 27: Being-in-the-World -- Chapter 28: Beauty as a Way of Knowing -- Part 2: Educational Transformation and Sustainability Literacy -- Chapter 29: Citizen Engagement -- Chapter 30: Re-educating the Person -- Chapter 31: Institutional Transformation -- Chapter 32: A Learning Society -- Back cover.
Abstract:
A vital resource for sustainability educators and decision-makers, this groundbreaking book joins leading sustainability educators with permaculturists, literary critics, ecologists, artists, journalists, engineers, mathematicians, and philosophers in a deep reflection on the skills that people need to survive and thrive in the challenging conditions of the 21st century. Responding to the threats of climate change, peak oil, resource deletion, economic uncertainty, and energy insecurity demands the utmost in creativity, ingenuity, and new ways of thinking in order to reinvent self and society. Among the many skills, attributes, and values described in this volume are values reflection, coping with complexity, permaculture design, transition skills, advertising awareness, effortless action, and ecological intelligence, each accompanied by ideas for active learning exercises to help develop the skill. Far from being a rigid or definitive statement of the one right way, however, the handbook is exploratory, aiming to open up new, unthought-of paths, possibilities, and choices. It is intended for anyone interested in the literally vital issue of the skills we need to survive and thrive in the 21st century and build a more sustainable future. Contributors include John Naish, Satish Kumar, Patrick Whitefield, John Blewitt, Stephan Harding, and Stephen Sterling.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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