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Helen Kopnina; Alice C. Hughes; Ruopiao Zhang; Mike Russell; Engelbert Fellinger; Simon M. Smith; Les Tickner – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, launched during the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in December 2022, encourages governments, companies and investors to publish data on their nature-related risks, dependencies and impacts. These disclosures are intended to drive businesses to recognise, manage and mitigate their reliance…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Biodiversity, Sustainable Development, Ecology
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Marielle Schuurman; Barbara Groot; Tineke Abma – Educational Action Research, 2025
Globally, many complex issues, like the ageing population and health inequalities, require attention. People are experimenting to combat these issues in their local contexts through bigger or smaller networks; however, much of the knowledge about these initiatives remains localised and elitist and omits the voices and perspectives of citizens.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Networks, Local Issues, Age Differences
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Kopnina, Helen – Education Sciences, 2020
This article will discuss social, environmental, and ecological justice in education for sustainable development (ESD) and Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG). The concept of sustainable development and, by extension, the ESD, places heavy emphasis on the economic and social aspects of sustainability. However, the ESD falls short of…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Justice, Ecology
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Kopnina, Helen – Environmental Education Research, 2018
One of the main outcomes of the Rio + 20 Conference was the agreement to set Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The most common terms in the 17 goals are economic growth, resilience and inclusion, all of which are critically examined in this article. This article discusses how these goals are reflected within existing sustainability programs at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Vocational Education, Postsecondary Education
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Kopnina, Helen – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2015
This article will discuss the role of environmentalism in environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) in the context of ecopedagogy. Ecopedagogy calls for the remaking of capitalist practices and seeks to re-engage democracy to include multispecies interests in the face of our current global ecological crisis. In…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ecology, Business Administration Education, Sustainable Development
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Makrakis, Vassilios – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2012
With the development of science and technology, a basically optimistic ideology of progress has emerged. This deterministic attitude has been challenged in recent decades as a result of harmful side-effects generated by the way technology and science have been approached and used. The study presented here is a part of a larger international and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technological Advancement, Ideology, Political Attitudes