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This book contributes to advancing the knowledge and skills required for teaching sustainable development, including: the ability to make conscious choices among available alternative contents and methods for deepening students' perspectives on sustainable development; the history of humankind's interaction with the natural world; a focus on how current environmental commitment has evolved, transformed and intensified over the years; four current ways of putting these issues into perspective, and much more.

• Preface 7
• Introduction: Teaching Competence in Education for Sustainable Development 9
• The Shift from Environmental Education to Education for Sustainable Development 9
• Requirements for Teaching Sustainable Development 11
• Book Layout 14
• Note to Readers 17
• Part I A Background: Environmental History and Human Ecology
• 1 The History of Humankind - from Hunting for Survival to Hunting for Pleasure 21
• Do Humans Belong to the Animal Kingdom? 21
• Geological Time, Evolutionary Time, Human Time 22
• The Hunter-gatherer Age 24
• Humans in the Agricultural Age 26
• The Growth of the Industrial Society 27
• The Beginnings of the Post-industrial Age? 30
• Where is Nature to be Found and What is an Environmental Problem? 31
• From Muscle Power to Fossil Fuels to... 35
• 2 The History of Industrialism and Environmentalism 41
• Control Through Understanding 41
• Nature Preservation and National Landscapes 43
• Nature Conservation and Recreation 45
• Environmental Protection and Peak Years 46
• Critical Alternatives 47
• Sustainable Development 50
• Reserves and Multipurpose Use 52
• Globalisation 54
• 3 Sustainable Developnieot - Sustainable for Who? 59
• Social, Economical and Ecological Sustainability 59
• From Locally Concentrated to Globally Diffuse 61
• From Industrial Emissions to Industrial Production 62
• Environmental Problems as International Trade 64
• From State Control to Local Planning, Trans-national Agreements and Market Solutions 65
• Environmental Commitment: From Words to ...? 67
• More and More a Question of Attitudes and Ethics 68
• The 'Instant Society Within Walls' 69
• 'Doors in the Walls of the Instant Society' 70
• Part II Perspectives on Current Environmental Problems
• 4 Environmental Problems from an Ecological Point of View 79
• What is a Lake? 79
• Current Ecology - Two main Perspectives 80
• Population Ecology 81
• Systems Ecology 82
• Stability and Transformation 84
• Natural Transformation and Human Involvement 87
• Ecology and the Development of Society 89
• 5 Environmental Problems from an Ethical Point of View 93
• A Conflict of Values 93
• Ethics and Morals 94
• Environmental Morals and Environmental Ethics 96
• Environmental Ethical Categories 97
• Anthropocentric Environmental Ethics 98
• Non-anthropocentric Environmental Ethics 103
• Summary 110
• 6 Environmental Problems from a Political Point of View 115
• The Modem Project 116
• The Late-modern Society 118
• Post-modern Challenges 124
• Conclusion: Environmental Problems are Political Problems 130
• 7 Environmental Problems from an Economic Point of View 133
• Economics and Environmental Economics 133
• Economics as a Reason for Environmental Problems 135
• Economics as an Environmental Opportunity 137
• Opposition and Criticism 141
• Economic Discussions: Necessary But Not Sufficient 143
• Economics and Sustainable Development: A Summary 146
• Part III Teaching and Learning Perspectives on ESD
• 8 Selective Traditions Within Environmental Education 155
• Environmental Approach and Educational Philosophy 156
• The Characteristics of the Selective Traditions of Environmental Education 159
• A Summary of Environmental Education Traditions 165
• 9 Environmental Education from a Democratic Perspective 169
• Evaluating the Alternatives 169
• The Democratic Dimensions of Education 170
• Education on Environmental and Sustainable Development is Political 171
• Democracy in the Traditions of Environmental Education 173
• Conclusion: Democracy Before, After or During Lessons 177
• 10 Learning of Knowledge and Morals 179
• The Learning Process 179
• Learning Morals 181
• Learning Knowledge and Values Simultaneously 186
• Companion Meanings and Moral Debate 189
• 11 Teaching Sustainable Development 191
• What are the Implications of Teaching Sustainable Development? 191
• The Concept 'Sustainable Development' 191
• An Educational Perspective 195
• Selecting Goals and Motivating Factors in Teaching for Sustainable Development 196
• Choosing and Utilizing the Content of Education for Sustainable Development 197
• Selecting Methods and Approaches in Education for Sustainable Development 200
• Conclusion 203
• 12 Teaching Models within Sustainable Development 205
• 'The Shopping Bag' - A Student-active 'Anthropological' Project 205
• Sustainable Development in Social Science - the Conflict Perspective 208
• The Conscious Consumer in a Sustainable Society - an All-encompassing Theme 213
• Conclusion: Teaching Competence in Education for Sustainable Development 223
• Education for Sustainable Development: A Summary 225
• An Educational Model for the Application of ESD 230
• The Authors 237
• Index 239