Learning, Natural Capital and Sustainable Development
Options for an Uncertain World
1st Edition
Published on 4. December 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-415-46423-9 (ISBN)
Description
This special issue of the journal Environmental Education Research addresses a topical area of importance - human behaviour towards the environment. The book explores the economic metaphor of 'natural capital' in this context arguing that the currently dominant model of sustainable development, underpinned by a particular understanding of this metaphor, is impeding progress towards genuine sustainability, and secondly that it will continue to do so until the metaphor can be reworked in both thought and practice.
This book explores an alternative economic model of natural capital value, based on recent 'real options' thinking which reworks the natural capital idea and provides a framework for articulating two major and closely-related shifts of emphasis.
This book explores an alternative economic model of natural capital value, based on recent 'real options' thinking which reworks the natural capital idea and provides a framework for articulating two major and closely-related shifts of emphasis.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-46423-9 (9780415464239)
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John Foster | Stephen Gough
Learning, Natural Capital and Sustainable Development
Options for an Uncertain World
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Learning, Natural Capital and Sustainable Development
Options for an Uncertain World
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Options for an Uncertain World
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Persons
John Foster is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Lancaster.,
Stephen Gough is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment at the University of Bath.
Stephen Gough is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment at the University of Bath.
Content
Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Learning, natural capital and sustainable development: exploring the connections, John Foster, Stephen Gough; Chapter 2 Uncertainty, environmental policy and social learning, Robin Grove-White; Chapter 3 Making sense of stewardship: metaphorical thinking and the environment, John Foster; Chapter 4 What does 'natural capital' do? The role of metaphor in economic understanding of the environment, Maria Akerman; Chapter 5 Environmental learning, metaphors and natural capital, Derek R. Bell; Chapter 6 Education for Sustainable Development, natural capital and sustainability: Learning to Last, John Blewitt; Chapter 7 Natural capital: hard economics, soft metaphor?, Adrian Winnett; Chapter 8 Rethinking the natural capital metaphor: implications for education and learning, Stephen Gough; Chapter 9 Options, sustainability policy and the spontaneous order, John Foster;