The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy (eBook, PDF)

Skills for a Changing World
Redaktion: Stibbe, Arran

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A vital resource for sustainability educators, learners and decision-makers on how we can build a more sustainable future.

In this ground-breaking book, leading sustainability educators are joined by permaculturists, literary critics, ecologists, artists, journalists, engineers, mathematicians and philosophers in a deep reflection on the skills that people need to survive and thrive in the challenging conditions of the 21st century.

Responding to the threats of climate change, peak oil, resource depletion, economic uncertainty and energy insecurity demands the utmost in creativity, ingenuity and new ways of thinking to reinvent self and society. Among the many skills, attributes and values described in The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy are values reflection, coping with complexity, permaculture design, transition skills, advertising awareness, effortless action, and ecological intelligence, each accompanied by ideas for active learning exercises to help develop the skill.

Far from being a rigid or definitive statement of the one right way however, the handbook is exploratory, aiming to open up new, unthought-of paths, possibilities and choices. With contributors including John Naish, Satish Kumar, Patrick Whitefield, John Blewitt, Stephan Harding and Stephen Sterling, this is intended for educators, learners and anyone else interested in the vital issue of the skills we need to survive and thrive in the 21st century and build a more sustainable future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781907448645
• Artikelnr.: 38365310

Autorenporträt

Arran Stibbe has an academic background in both humanities and human ecology, and combines the two in his teaching and research into Education for Sustainability. He lectures in the Humanities Department at the University of Gloucestershire, is a National Teaching Fellow, and a fellow of the Centre for Active Learning. He has published widely in the area of ecolinguistics and is convenor of the Sustainability in Higher Education Developers group (SHED Share), a network of 200 sustainability educators from across the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction by Arran Stibbe and Heather Luna.
Part 1 Skills for a Changing World
Ecocriticism: the ability to investigate cultural artefacts from an
ecological perspective by Greg Garrard
Optimisation: the art of personal sufficiency by John Naish
Grounded Economic Awareness: economic awareness based on ecological and
ethical values by Satish Kumar
Advertising Awareness: the ability to expose advertising discourses that
undermine sustainability, and resist them by Arran Stibbe
Transition Skills: skills for transition to a post-fossil-fuel age by
Stephen Quilley
Commons Thinking: the ability to envisage and enable a viable future
through connected action by Justin Kenrick
Effortless Action: the ability to fulfil human needs effortlessly through
working with nature by Ling Feng
Permaculture Design: designing our lives with nature as the model by
Patrick Whitefield
Community Gardening: skills for building community and working within
environmental limits by Alma Clavin
Ecological Intelligence: viewing the world relationally by Stephen Sterling
Systems Thinking: the ability to recognise and analyse the interconnections
within and between systems by Glenn Strachan
Gaia Awareness: awareness of the animate qualities of the Earth by Stephan
Harding
Futures Thinking: the ability to envision scenarios of a more desirable
future by Sue Wayman
Values Reflection and the Earth Charter: the ability to critique the values
of an unsustainable society and consider alternatives by Jeffrey Newman
Social Conscience: the ability to reflect on deeply held opinions about
social justice and sustainability by Myshele Goldberg
New Media Literacy: communication skills for sustainability by John Blewitt
Cultural Literacy: understanding and respect for the cultural aspects of
sustainability by Kim Polistina
Carbon Capability: understanding climate change and reducing emissions by
Lorraine Whitmarsh, Saffron ONeill, Gill Seyfang and Irene Lorenzoni
Greening Business: the ability to drive environmental and sustainability
improvements in the workplace by Zoe Robinson
Materials Awareness: the ability to expose the hidden impact of materials
on sustainability by Melinda Watson
Appropriate Technology and Appropriate Design: the ability to design
systems, technologies and equipment in an appropriate way by Mike Clifford
Technology Appraisal: the ability to evaluate technological innovation by
Gavin Harper
Complexity, Systems Thinking and Practice: skills and techniques for
managing complex systems by Dick Morris and Stephen Martin
Coping with Complexity: the ability to manage complex sustainability
problems by Bland Tomkinson
Emotional Well-being: the ability to research and reflect on the roots of
emotional well-being by Morgan Phillips
Finding Meaning without Consuming: the ability to experience meaning,
purpose and satisfaction through non-material wealth by Paul Maiteny
Being-in-the-World: the ability the think about the self in interconnection
and interdependence with the surrounding world by John Danvers
Beauty as a Way of Knowing: the redemption of knowing through the
experience of beauty by Barry Bignell
Part 2 Educational Transformation for Sustainability Literacy
Citizen Engagement by Geoff Fagan
Re-educating the Person by Karen Blincoe
Institutional Transformation by Anne Phillips
A Learning Society by Kate Davies