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This book 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 within the book range from the urban context to theoretical underpinnings, educational settings, participants, and educational approaches ... More
Keywords: environmental education, urban sustainability, urban nature, environmental quality, cities, youth development, community development, urban environmental education
Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9781501705823 |
Published to Cornell Scholarship Online: January 2018 | DOI:10.7591/cornell/9781501705823.001.0001 |
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