Applying a Resilience Systems Framework to Urban Environmental Education
Overview & Synopsis
A growing body of literature on community gardening, watershed restoration, and similar "civic ecology" practices suggests avenues for integrating social and ecological outcomes in urban natural resources management. In this paper, we argue that an environmental education programme in which learning is situated in civic ecology practices also has the potential to address both community and environmental goals. Further, we suggest that civic ecology practices and related environmental education programmes may foster resilience in urban social-ecological systems, through enhancing biological diversity and ecosystem services, and through incorporating diverse forms of knowledge and participatory processes in resource management. By proposing interrelationships among natural resources management, environmental education, and social-ecological systems, we hope to open up discussion of a research agenda focusing on the role of environmental education in systems processes and resilience. (Contains 1 figure.)
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Document Information
| Document Title | Applying a Resilience Systems Framework to Urban Environmental Education |
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| Author / Organization | Krasny, Marianne E., Tidball, Keith G. |
| Subject & Discipline | Environmental Education, Urban Education, Citizenship Education |
| Categories | Education & Pedagogy |
| Publication Year | 2009 |
| License / Rights | Public Domain / Open Access Educational Resource |
| Resource Verification | Listed PDF (Verification Pending) |
| Original Host Website |
ERIC (Education Resources)
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| File Format | application/pdf (Portable Document Format) |
| Language | EN |
| Catalog ID | DOC-208509 |
| Original Source Link | Visit Source Page on eric.ed.gov » |