INTERNATIONAL
HANDBOOK
OF
RESEARCH
ON
ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATION
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 examine critically the historical progression
of
the field, its
CUITent
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) by Routledge Publishers.
Robert
B.
Stevenson, James Cook University, Australia
Michael Brody, Montana State University, USA
Justin Dillon, King's College London,
UK
Arjen E.J. Wals, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
INTERNATIONAL
HANDBOOK
OF
RESEARCH
ON
ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATION
Edited by
Robert
B. Stevenson
Michael
Brady
Justin
Dillon
Arjen
E.J.
Wals
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EDUCATIONAL
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International handbook
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research on environmental education/edited by Robert Stevenson ... [et al.].
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index. _
1.
Environmental education-Handbooks, manuals, etc.
2.
Environmental
sciences-Study
and teaching-Handbooks, manuals, etc.
I. Stevenson, Robert.
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This handbook is dedicated to the pioneers in the field
of
environmental education
who had the foresight that education and learning are crucial in finding pathways that allow
humanity to live on this planet in an equitable and just way without compromising its
carrying capacity while maintaining the integrity
of
aIl species.