Editors:
- Explores links between climate change, climate-related threats to sustainable development and distance education
- Provides an interdisciplinary approach to online teaching for climate change mitigation issues
- Promotes theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and practices reconciling sociocultural challenges with distance educational movements
Part of the book series: Climate Change Management (CCM)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book addresses the links between climate change and the threats it poses to sustainable development, from a distance education perspective. Discussing current trends and challenges in sustainable development education, climate literacy and innovations in climate change education, it contributes to the global debate on the implementation of education for sustainability. It also assesses the role that e-learning can play in this process, addressing pedagogical concepts as well as the wide range of technological options now available.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Biology & CESAM, Centre fo, University of Aveiro Department of Biology & CESAM, Centre fo, Aveiro, Portugal
Ulisses M. Azeiteiro
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School of Science and Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
Walter Leal Filho
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Dept. of Education and Distance Learning, Universidade Aberta , Porto, Portugal
Luísa Aires
About the editors
His main interests are the impacts of climate change in the marine environment (biology and ecology of global change) and adaptation to climate change in the context of sustainable development (social and environmental sustainability and climate change). Professor Azeiteiro has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 200 publications, including books (> 20), book chapters (> 50), special issues of scientific journals and papers in refereed journals (> 75 ISI and > 50 peer reviewed).
Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DEd, DL, DLitt) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences" at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 300 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals.
Luísa Aires is Associate Professor at the Department of Education and Distance Learning of Universidade Aberta (UAb) (the single public distance education university in Portugal). She holds a Master’s and a PhD in Education Sciences and her research interests focus on educational communication, interpersonal relationships in e-learning and qualitative methodologies in educational research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Literacy and Innovations in Climate Change Education
Book Subtitle: Distance Learning for Sustainable Development
Editors: Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Walter Leal Filho, Luísa Aires
Series Title: Climate Change Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70199-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70198-1Published: 22 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88902-3Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70199-8Published: 13 January 2018
Series ISSN: 1610-2002
Series E-ISSN: 1610-2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 388
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Technology and Digital Education, Climate Change Management and Policy, Development Economics, Development and Sustainability, Sustainable Development