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1. Sustainable Development

   Edited by John Blewitt

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment

   The United Nations has pithily defined sustainable development as progress that ‘meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’. But sustainable development remains highly contested and is subject to a wide variety of interpretations,...

   To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Searching for Resilience in Sustainable Development

   Learning Journeys in Conservation

   By John Blewitt, Daniella Tilbury

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development

   Searching for Resilience in Sustainable Develoment examines ways in which resilience may be created within the web of ecological, socio-economic and cultural systems that make up the world in which we live and upon which all living creatures depend. The authors embark upon a learning journey...

   To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Media, Animal Conservation and Environmental Education

   Edited by John Blewitt

   Natural History filmmaking has a long history but the generic boundaries between it and environmental and conservation filmmaking are blurred. Nature, environment and animal imagery has been a mainstay of television, campaigning organisations and conservation bodies from Greenpeace to the Sierra...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. Understanding Sustainable Development

   Edited by John Blewitt

   Sustainable development is notoriously difficult to grasp for students and professionals. Multidimensional, encompassing social, ecological and economic theories, policies and practice, it can be a maze of complexity and contradiction. This powerful new textbook, by a topic instructor in the field,...

   Published July 28th 2008 by Routledge
5. The Ecology of Learning

   Sustainability, Lifelong Learning and Everyday Life

   Edited by John Blewitt

   Your house is flooded by 'unseasonal' heavy rain. What do you learn from this experience? Do you shrug your shoulders and call your insurer? Or do you choose to learn about climate change, switch to renewable energy and lobby politicians? In this insightful book, John Blewitt explores the...

   Published July 31st 2006 by Routledge
6. The Sustainability Curriculum

   The Challenge for Higher Education

   Edited by John Blewitt, Cedric Cullingford

   The links between education and sustainable development are deepening, although subject to much controversy and debate. The success of the sustainability discourse depends both on the pedagogic and research functions of higher education. Similarly, for higher education itself to remain relevant and...

   Published June 30th 2004 by Routledge