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Annie McMahon Whitlock – Teachers College Press, 2024
This book uses the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, as a touchstone for the importance and value of including place-based education in the social studies curriculum. Whitlock scrutinizes this local environmental issue to not only drive critical inquiry in the classroom, but also to show how the curriculum can propel valuable social change in the…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Place Based Education, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
Fortner, Rosanne W., Ed.; Mayer, Victor J., Ed. – 1993
This volume of 16 chapters by 15 contributing authors was conceived as a means of drawing together a body of basic information about the Great Lakes that is up to date, based on sound research, and interpreted by experts in the scientific, historical, environmental and political value of the Great Lakes to North America and the world. Chapters…
Descriptors: Business, Climate, Ecology, Environmental Education
Samuelsson, Ingrid Pramling, Ed. – 1998
Authored by individuals from five Nordic countries, this book focuses on questions about the child's right to live in and learn about an ecologically sustainable world. The first five chapters are theoretical in character, while the final six chapters are derived from work done by early childhood teachers together with children. The goal of the…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education, Ecological Factors
Hansen, Nancy Richardson; And Others – 1988
Citizens can play an important role in helping their states develop pollution control programs and spurring effective efforts to deal with nonpoint-source pollution. This guide takes the reader step-by-step through the process that states must follow to comply with water quality legislation relevant to nonpoint-source pollution. Part I provides…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Community Education
Kneese, Allen V. – 1984
This book examines the current state of the art regarding benefits assessment, including such tools as bidding games, surveys, property-value studies, wage differentials, risk reduction evaluation, and mortality and morbidity cost estimation. It is based on research, sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, related to the…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Air Pollution, Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness