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1. Education, Nature, and Society

   By Stephen Gough

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Environmental issues continue to divide opinion, sometimes in extreme ways. Almost everyone agrees that education has a role to play in ensuring the future of humanity on Earth. Some think we should all learn to leave a minimal environmental footprint; others argue that education should promote...

   To Be Published April 30th 2014 by Routledge
2. Learning, Natural Capital and Sustainable Development

   Options for an Uncertain World

   Edited by John Foster, Stephen Gough

   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,...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. Sustainability and Security within Liberal Societies

   Learning to Live with the Future

   Edited by Stephen Gough, Andrew Stables

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   Much of the world will be living in broadly "liberal" societies for the foreseeable future. Sustainability and security, however defined, must therefore be considered in the context of such societies, yet there is very little significant literature that does so. Indeed, much ecologically-oriented...

   Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge
4. Higher Education and Sustainable Development

   Paradox and Possibility

   By Stephen Gough, William Scott

   Series: Key Issues in Higher Education

   The ‘Key Issues in Higher Education’ series aims to raise both awareness and the standards of debate on the fundamental issues that lie at the very heart of higher education and intends to assist national and international debate. Higher Education and Sustainable Development examines whether it is...

   Published June 28th 2009 by Routledge
5. Learning, Natural Capital and Sustainable Development

   Options for an Uncertain World

   Edited by John Foster, Stephen Gough

   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,...

   Published December 3rd 2007 by Routledge
6. Key Issues in Sustainable Development and Learning: a critical review

   Edited by Stephen Gough, William Scott

   This book presents seminal readings from existing literature alongside specially commissioned, critical vignettes from leading thinkers with interests in sustainable development and learning. The book sets out to inform readers about the many perspectives that exist, and to challenge assumptions...

   Published November 19th 2003 by Routledge
7. Sustainable Development and Learning: framing the issues

   By Stephen Gough, William Scott

   This book examines the difficult and wide-ranging issues relating to how we understand our environment, our place in it, and how we choose to act. This comprehensive text provides an overview of these developing key issues, illustrating how - through schooling, higher education, professional...

   Published August 13th 2003 by Routledge