Social learning towards a sustainable world : : principles, perspectives, and praxis / / edited by Arjen E.J. Wals.

• TeilnehmendeR: Wals, Arjen E. J.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (538 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Table of Contents

Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword to social learning towards a more sustainable world; Fritjof Capra; Introduction ; Arjen E. J. Wals and Tore van der Leij; Part I Principles; Minding the gap: The role of social learning in linking our stated desire for a more sustainable world to our everyday actions and policies; Harold Glasser; Riding the storm: towards a connective cultural consciousness; Dr Stephen Sterling; The practical value of theory: Conceptualising learning in the pursuit of a sustainable development; Anne Loeber, Barbara van Mierlo, John Grin and Cees Leeuwis

Social learning revisited: Lessons learned from North and SouthDanny Wildemeersch; Learning based change for sustainability: Perspectives and pathways; Daniella Tilbury; The critical role of civil society in fostering societal learning for a sustainable world; Richard Bawden, Irene Guijt and Jim Woodhill; From risk to resilience: What role for community greening and civic ecology in cities? ; Keith G. Tidball and Marianne E. Krasny; Reaching into the holomovement: A Bohmian perspective on social learning for sustainability ; David Selby

Towards sustainability: Five strands of social learning Robert Dyball, Valerie A. Brown and Meg Keen; Part II Perspectives; Participatory planning in protected areas: Exploring the social-science contribution; Joke Vandenabeele and Lieve Goorden; Social learning amongst social and environmental standard-setting organizations: The case of smallholder certification in the sasa project ; Rhiannon Pyburn; Social learning processes and sustainable development: The emergence and transformation of an indigenous land use system in the Andes of Bolivia; Stephan Rist, Freddy Delgado and Urs Wiesmann

From centre of excellence to centre of expertise: Regional centres of expertise in education for sustainable developmentZinaida Fadeeva ; Learning about corporate social responsibility from a sustainable development perspective: A Dutch experiment; Jacqueline Cramer and Anne Loeber ; Social learning for sustainable development: embracing technical and cultural change as originally inspired by the natural step; Hilary Bradbury; Corporate social responsibility: Towards a new dialogue?; Peter Lund-Thomsen ; Social learning as action inquiry: Exploring education for sustainable societies

Paul HartSocial learning and resistance: Towards contingent agency; Marcia McKenzie; Sustainability through vicarious learning: Reframing consumer education; Sue McGregor; Social learning for sustainability in a consumerist society; C.S.A. (Kris) van Koppen; Part III Praxis; Partnerships between environmentalists and farmers for sustainable development: A case of Kabukuri-numa and the adjacent rice fields in the town of Tajiri in Northern Japan; Yoko Mochizuki ; Social learning in the straw project ; Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow

Social learning in situations of competing claims on water use