- Title Pages
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 Advancing Urbanization -
2 Sustainable Cities -
3 Four Asian Tigers -
4 Cities as Opportunities -
5 Critical Environmental Education -
6 Environmental Justice -
7 Sense of Place -
8 Climate Change Education -
9 Community Assets -
10 Trust and Collaborative Governance -
11 Environmental Governance -
12 Nonformal Educational Settings -
13 Community Environmental Education -
14 School Partnerships -
15 Sustainable Campuses -
16 Early Childhood -
17 Positive Youth Development -
18 Adult Education -
19 Intergenerational Education -
20 Inclusive Education -
21 Educator Professional Development -
22 Cities as Classrooms -
23 Environmental Arts -
24 Adventure Education -
25 Urban Agriculture -
26 Ecological Restoration -
27 Green Infrastructure -
28 Urban Digital Storytelling -
29 Participatory Urban Planning -
30 Educational Trends - Afterword
- Contributors
- Index
Advancing Urbanization
Advancing Urbanization
- Chapter:
- (p.13) 1 Advancing Urbanization
- Source:
- Urban Environmental Education Review
- Author(s):
David Maddox
Harini Nagendra
Thomas Elmqvist
Alex Russ
, Alex Russ, Marianne E. Krasny- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter explains the importance of telling the story of “advancing urbanization”—both the global acceleration of urbanization and the promise offered by urbanization—for urban environmental education. It argues that cities—their design and how we live in them—will be key in our struggle for sustainability, indeed our future. As cities grow, as they are newly created, and as more and more people choose or require them as places to live, our decisions about urban design and city building will determine the outcomes of long-term challenges related to resilience, sustainability, livability, and justice. Rather than being the essential cause of the global environmental dangers we face, cities will be key to success in overcoming these dangers. The chapter examines the role of environmental education in fostering public engagement through clarifying and transmitting the challenges, values, actions, and methods for achieving sustainable, resilient, livable, and just cities.
Keywords: urbanization, urban environmental education, cities, sustainability, urban design, city building, resilience
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- Title Pages
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 Advancing Urbanization -
2 Sustainable Cities -
3 Four Asian Tigers -
4 Cities as Opportunities -
5 Critical Environmental Education -
6 Environmental Justice -
7 Sense of Place -
8 Climate Change Education -
9 Community Assets -
10 Trust and Collaborative Governance -
11 Environmental Governance -
12 Nonformal Educational Settings -
13 Community Environmental Education -
14 School Partnerships -
15 Sustainable Campuses -
16 Early Childhood -
17 Positive Youth Development -
18 Adult Education -
19 Intergenerational Education -
20 Inclusive Education -
21 Educator Professional Development -
22 Cities as Classrooms -
23 Environmental Arts -
24 Adventure Education -
25 Urban Agriculture -
26 Ecological Restoration -
27 Green Infrastructure -
28 Urban Digital Storytelling -
29 Participatory Urban Planning -
30 Educational Trends - Afterword
- Contributors
- Index