Overview
- Outcome of a 5 year project held in the University of Tokyo
- Experiences including failures and pit falls of environmental leadership education
- Environmental leadership capacity building on site with various stakeholders
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
The Graduate Program in Sustainability Science under the Department of Urban Engineering of The University of Tokyo has been running an environmental leadership education program at the graduate student level since 2007 called the Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders (APIEL). This book describes the University’s experiences in establishing and organizing that program and provides some lessons learned for those who are considering starting environmental leadership education programs. APIEL’s curriculum includes the classroom topic “Environmental Challenges and Leadership in Asia.” As well, the APIEL program has field units to provide experience in problem solving, decision making, and participation, taking into consideration ecological, political, economic, social, aesthetic, and ethical aspects. Another characteristic feature of the program is that it promotes changes in attitudes and behavior that will help to solve existing environmental problems and to avoid a generation of new ones.
Over the four years of study, efforts have been made to bond leadership with field-oriented exercises such as: 1) The Intensive Program on Sustainability; 2) an integral approach focused on sustainable integrated watershed management of arid regions; 3) sustainable development of programs in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand for qualifying students with problem-solving processes to combat issues such as flooding, lack of proper urban environmental infrastructure, and health risks; and 4) the Greater Pearl River Delta program with multicultural diversity to bring about sustainable urban development for a green city. All of those are described in the book. Last but not least, APIEL’s resonance throughout international networks and alumni are introduced.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
http://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pros-e/person/takashi_mino/takashi_mino.htm
Keisuke Hanaki
http://www.esys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/member/hanaki/index-e
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Leadership Capacity Building in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Experience and Lessons from Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders
Editors: Takashi Mino, Keisuke Hanaki
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54340-4
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54339-8Published: 10 April 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-54340-4Published: 29 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 140
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Environmental Science and Engineering, Science Education, Business Ethics