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Global sustainability and communities of practice /
Environmental challenges are more complex due to rapid development and human population growth alongside technological advances that alter lifestyles and social norms. To meet these challenges, concepts of sustainability need to be more accessible to the public, who as citizens, activists, and citiz...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Towards global sustainability and communities of practice / Carl A. Maida (University of California, Los Angeles) and Sam Beck (Cornell University)
- Cultivating sustainability literacy and public engagement in Intag, Ecuador / Linda D'Amico (Winona State University)
- Spaces for transdisciplinary dialogues on the relationship between local communities and their environment : The case of a rural community in the Calchaqui Valley (Salta, Argentina) / Marta Crivos, Maria Rosa Martinez, Laura Teves, Carolina Remorini (Universidad Nacional de la Plata-UNLP. Argentina)
- Affective solidarities? Participating in and witnessing fair trade and women's empowerment in transnational communities of practice / Debarati Sen (Kennesaw State University)
- Plural citizenship and social inclusion in Brazil's urban communities of practice / Carla Guerron Montero (University of Delaware)
- The role of communities of practice in urban rights activism in Istanbul, Turkey / Danielle V. Schoon (Ohio State University) and Funda Oral (Sulukule Children's Art Atelier, Istanbul)
- Cultivating civic ecology : A photovoice study with urban gardeners in Lisbon, Portugal / Krista Harper (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Ana Isabel Afonso (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Knowledge production and emancipatory social movements from the heart of globalized hipsterdom, Williamsburg, Brooklyn / Sam Beck (Cornell University)
- Knowing sustainability : Building communities of practice through project-based learning in urban ecology at High Tech High / Carl A. Maida (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Inventing eco-cycle a social enterprise approach to sustainability education / Sandy Smith-Nonini (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Confronting tyranny in a public health agency : Crafting a 'philosophy of praxis' into a 'community of resistance' / Brian McKenna (University of Michigan, Dearborn)
- Local trade and exchange/employment systems (LETS) in future eco-sustainable societies / Richard Westra (Nagoya University, Japan).