Urban Environmental Education Review


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Urban Environmental Education Review explores how environmental education can contribute to urban sustainability. Urban environmental education includes any practices that create learning opportunities to foster individual and community well-being and environmental quality in cities. It fosters novel educational approaches and helps debunk common assumptions that cities are ecologically barren and that city people don't care for, or need, urban nature or a healthy environment. Topics in Urban Environmental Education Review range from the urban context to theoretical underpinnings, educational settings, participants, and educational approaches in urban environmental education. Chapters integrate research and practice to help aspiring and practicing environmental educators, urban planners, and other environmental leaders achieve their goals in terms of education, youth and community development, and environmental quality in cities. The ten-essay series Urban EE Essays, excerpted from Urban Environmental Education Review, may be found here: naaee.org/eepro/resources/urban-ee-essays. These essays explore various perspectives on urban environmental education and may be reprinted/reproduced only with permission from Cornell University Press.




Urban Environmental Education Review


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Urban context -- Advancing urbanization / David Maddox, Harini Nagendra, Thomas Elmqvist, Alex Russ -- Sustainable cities / Martha Monroe, Arjen Wals, Hiromi Kobori, Johanna Ekne -- Four Asian tigers / Geok Chin Ivy Tan, John Chi-Kin Lee, Tzuchau Chang, Chankook Lee -- Cities as opportunities / Daniel Fonseca de Andrade, Soul Shava, Sanskriti Menon -- Educational settings -- Nonformal educational settings / Joe Heimlich, Jennifer Adams, Marc Stern -- Community environmental education / Marianne Krasny, Mutizwa Mukute, Olivia Aguilar, Priscilla Masilela, Lausanne Olvitt -- School partnerships / Polly Knowlton Cockett, Janet Dyment, Mariona Espinet, Yu Huang -- Sustainable campuses / Scott Ashmann, Felix Pohl, David Barbier -- Theoretical underpinnings -- Critical environmental education / Robert B. Stevenson, Arjen E.J. Wals, Joe Heimlich, Ellen Field -- Environmental justice / Marcia McKenzie, Jada Renee Koushik, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Belinda Chin, Jason Corwin -- Sense of place / Jennifer Adams, David Greenwood, Mitchell Thomashow, Alex Russ -- Climate change education / Marianne Krasny, Chew-Hung Chang, Marna Hauk, Bryce Dubois -- Community assets / Marianne Krasny, Simon Beames, Shorna Allred -- Trust and collaborative governance / Marc Stern, Alexander Hellquist -- Environmental governance / Marianne Krasny, Erika S. Svendsen, Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch, Johan Enqvist, Alex Russ -- Participants -- Early childhood / Victoria Derr, Louise Chawla, Illène Pevec -- Positive youth development / Tania Schusler, Jacqueline Davis-Manigaulte, Amy Cutter-Mackenzie -- Adult education / Philip Silva, Shelby Gull Laird -- Intergenerational education / Shih-Tsen Nike Liu, Matthew Kaplan -- Inclusive education / Olivia Aguilar, Libby McCann, Kendra Liddicoat -- Educator professional development / Rebecca L. Franzen, Cynthia Thomashow, Mary Leou, Zintle Songqwaru -- Educational approaches -- Cities as classrooms / Mary Leou, Marianna Kalaitzidakis -- Environmental art / Hilary Inwood, Joe Heimlich, Kumara Ward, Jennifer Adams -- Adventure education / Denise Mitten, Lewis Cheung, Wanglin Yan, Robert Withrow-Clark -- Urban agriculture / Illène Pevec, John Nzira, Soul Shava, Michael Barnet -- Ecological restoration / Elizabeth McCann, Tania Schusler -- Green infrastructure / Laura Cole, Timon McPhearson, Cecilia Herzog, Alex Russ -- Digital storytelling / Maria Daskolia, Giuliana Dettori, Raul Lejano -- Urban planning / Andrew Rudd, Karen Malone, M'lis Bartlett -- Educational trends / Alex Russ, Marianne Krasny




Civic Ecology


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Offer stories of ... emerging grassroots environmental stewardship, along with an interdisciplinary framework for understanding and studying it as a growing international phenomenon.--Back cover.




The City is an Ecosystem


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The City is an Ecosystem maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time—climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality—which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world’s population currently live. Across more than twenty chapters, the three parts of the book cover historical and scientific perspectives on the city as an ecosystem; human rights to the city in relation to urban sustainability; and the city as a sustainability classroom at all educational levels inside and outside formal classroom spaces. It argues that such efforts must be interdisciplinary and widespread to ensure an informed public and educated new generation are equipped to face an uncertain future, particularly relevant in the post-COVID-19 world. Gathering multiple interdisciplinary and community-engaged perspectives on these environmental crises, with contemporary and historical case study discussions, this timely volume cuts across the humanities and social and health sciences, and will be of interest to policymakers, urban ecologists, activists, built environment professionals, educators, and advanced students concerned with the future of our cities.




The Handbook of Environmental Education


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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.










Advancing Environmental Education Practice


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"Environmental education can foster behavior change and collective action by going beyond knowledge and attitudes to consider efficacy, identity, sense of place, social capital, nature connectedness, norms, and nudges"--







Trading Zones in Environmental Education


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Environmental educators often adhere to a relatively narrow theoretical paradigm focusing on changing attitudes and knowledge, which are assumed to foster pro-environmental behaviors, which, in turn, leads to better environmental quality. This book takes a different approach to trying to understand how environmental education might influence people, their communities, and the environment. The authors view changing environmental behaviors as a «wicked» problem, that is, a problem that does not readily lend itself to solutions using existing disciplinary approaches. The book as a whole opens up new avenues for pursuing environmental education research and practice and thus expands the conversation around environmental education, behaviors, and quality. Through developing transdisciplinary research questions and conceptual paradigms, this book also suggests new practices beyond those currently used in environmental education, natural resources management, and other environmental fields.