Biodiversity and Education for Sustainable Development

✍ Scribed by Paula Castro, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Paula Bacelar-Nicolau, Walter Leal Filho, Anabela Marisa Azul (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 337
• Series: World Sustainability Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book gathers interdisciplinary reflections from researchers, educators, and other experts on the subject of biodiversity closer to education and learning. The book also highlights its role as an added value to strategic principles for healthy ecosystems and sustainable human development. It promotes critical thinking and foster practices and attitudes for Education for Sustainable Development reconciling education with principles of human behaviour and nature. Readers especially find this book a timely resource in light of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, the Aichi Targets, and the new EU biodiversity strategy “Our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020”. Along with the challenge of ecosystems and public health, biodiversity conservation is essential for humanity’s continued security and sustainability, as it touches on all aspects of people’s lives.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Biodiversity and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): Tendencies and Perspectives....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Conservation of Biological Resources: Why Does It Matter?....Pages 13-28
Urban Biodiversity and Cities’ Sustainable Development....Pages 29-42
Education on Biodiversity in the Polar Regions....Pages 43-56
Teaching Mycology Worldwide....Pages 57-68
Bugs and Society I: Raising Awareness About Endemic Biodiversity....Pages 69-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Science and Education at the Centre for Invasion Biology....Pages 93-105
Engaging Society to Fight Invasive Alien Plants in Portugal—One of the Main Threats to Biodiversity....Pages 107-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Bugs and Society II: Testing Two Communication Strategies for Public Engagement in the Azores....Pages 125-153
Communicating Biodiversity Conservation Research Through Dialogue and Mutual Learning in Rural and Indigenous Communities....Pages 155-168
Education for Sustainability in the Context of Community Forestry....Pages 169-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Urban Forest Governance: FUTURE—The 100,000 Trees Project in the Porto Metropolitan Area....Pages 187-202
Reflexive Research and Education for Sustainable Development with Coastal Fishing Communities in the Azores Islands: A Theatre for Questions....Pages 203-217
Public Policies and Education for Biodiversity: Brazilian Challenges in a New Global Context....Pages 219-235
Education for Sustainable Development in Brazil: Challenges for Inclusive, Differentiated and Multicultural Education....Pages 237-248
Protecting Soil Biodiversity and Soil Functions: Current Status and Future Challenges....Pages 249-263
Interdisciplinary and Participatory Research at Early Childhood to Biodiversity Education and Sustainable Development....Pages 265-285
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Engaging ODL Students with Biodiversity Issues: A South African Case Study on the Role of ESD....Pages 289-304
Online Teaching for Biodiversity Conservation....Pages 305-319
Knowledge Dissemination and Best Practice Transfer on Biosafety, Biosecurity and Biorisk Management Through a Sustainable and Effective Education and Awareness System....Pages 321-334

✦ Subjects

Sustainable Development; Biodiversity; Science Education; Nature Conservation; Environmental Sociology