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Environmental Sustainability and Development in Organizations


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This book aims to analyze contexts and perspectives in the relationships between environmental sustainability, human development and organizations. The book combines different scientific approaches for enhancing our understanding of environmental sustainability, development economics and evaluate what the actual conditions in emerging economies are and how developing new process could improve the well-being of developing countries. Employing a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, the authors work to determine the main related factors and outcomes of the relationship between challenges and new strategies in the environmental sustainability, ultimately seeking to guide public policies to enhance the welfare of the population of an emerging economy.




Handbook of Research on International Business and Models for Global Purpose-Driven Companies


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International businesses struggle to be competitive and influential at the global market level. With the new ideas in the management and leadership disciplines, hard skills are losing or are believed to be losing their strategic relevance while soft skills are praised and highly sought after. The Handbook of Research on International Business and Models for Global Purpose-Driven Companies, a pivotal reference source, provides vital research on international business management strategies and applications within internal organizations that allow companies to strategically position themselves for increased success in the global economy. While highlighting topics such as organizational culture, internal communication, and generational workforce, this publication explores leadership disciplines as well as the methods of handling multicultural organizations. This book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, executives, managers, business professionals, human resource officials, researchers, academicians, and students.




Biodiversity


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International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education


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The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages between the environment, health, development, and education. The growth in scholarship makes this an opportune time to review and synthesize the knowledge base of the environmental education (EE) field. The purpose of this 51-chapter handbook is not only to illuminate the most important concepts, findings and theories that have been developed by EE research, but also to critically examine the historical progression of the field, its current debates and controversies, what is still missing from the EE research agenda, and where that agenda might be headed. Published for the American Educational Research Association (AERA).




Environmental Education


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In Environmental Education: Identity, Politics and Citizenship the editors endeavor to present views of environmental educators that focus on issues of identity and subjectivity, and how 'narrated lives’ relate to questions of learning, education, politics, justice, and citizenship.







Educación, medio ambiente y sustentabilidad


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El debate sobre el desarrollo sustentable se ha extendido al campo de la educación. Esto ha sido resultado sobre todo de la declaratoria del Decenio de las Naciones Unidas de la Educación para el Desarrollo Sustentable (2005-2014), si bien la controversia se había iniciado desde mediados de la década de los años noventa, sobre todo a partir de la circulación del documento base mediante el cual se convocó a la conferencia Internacional sobre Ambiente y Sociedad: Educación y Conciencia Pública para la Sustentabilidad, convocada por la UNESCO y el gobierno de Grecia, en Tesalónica en 1997. Diversas posturas a favor y en contra dentro de la comunidad los educadores ambientales han nutrido con variados puntos de vista este debate. Un debate que no se restringe a defender la identidad del gremio, ni a recursar sin fundamento una propuesta institucional encabezada por la UNESCO. Se trata de una disputa por la construcción del tipo de sociedad al que aspiramos. Asunto en el que los procesos educativos desempeñan un papel de primer orden. Como quiera, con el pretexto de la década se ha reactivado una discusión que era necesaria dentro del campo de la educación ambiental, desedimentando numerosos tópicos que requerían ser revisados a profundidad, no sólo debido a la lábil y vertiginosa realidad de los tiempos actuales, sino por los precarios resultados de los procesos educativos de cara al problema del progresivo deterioro de nuestro entorno vital. Dichos resultados han sido consecuencia de numerosos factores, nos corresponde revisar por qué los procesos educativos han operado dentro de la gestión ambiental con una perspectiva eminentemente instrumental. Y, por qué en la gestión educativa, la educación ambiental ha terminado por acomodarse dentro de la castrante estructura de un currículo que ya ha perdido todas sus posibilidades heurísticas. Un currículum escolar, como la Escuela misma en su conjunto, que requiere también una revisión de fondo porque los valores que trasmite son insustentables. Sin embargo, la respuesta a todo esto no es la educación para el desarrollo sustentable y algunas de las razones que convalidan esta postura se encuentran en este libro. Así, esta obra reúne a once distintos autores de México, España, Canadá, Australia, Sudáfrica y Nueva Zelanda que exponen sus puntos de vista sobre las implicaciones de la educación para el desarrollo sustentable, sobre el propio Decenio de Naciones Unidas y sobre el campo de la educación ambiental. Son trabajos indispensables para quienes se encuentran en estas tareas o pretenden adscribirse a ellas. Son trabajos críticos también para los educadores en general, pues este debate trasciende este campo e irradia consecuencias para el campo social en su conjunto.




Navigating the Research-Policy Relationship


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Drawing on studies in environmental and sustainability education, this book brings together new work that has explored the research-policy interface in varied contexts and from diverse perspectives.It will be beneficial to those interested in understanding the interface between research and policy. The relationship between research and policy has become an increasing focus for theoretical inquiry, empirical investigation, and practical development across many different fields. This volume highlights new empirical insights, theoretical ideas, practical examples, and methodological approaches for understanding, navigating, and developing more productive research-policy relationships. This book will be beneficial to anyone who is interested in understanding the interface between research and policy. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Environmental Education Research.