ERIC Number: EJ866077
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Publication Date: 2009-Aug
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Applying a Resilience Systems Framework to Urban Environmental Education
Krasny, Marianne E.; Tidball, Keith G.
Environmental Education Research, v15 n4 p465-482 Aug 2009
A growing body of literature on community gardening, watershed restoration, and similar "civic ecology" practices suggests avenues for integrating social and ecological outcomes in urban natural resources management. In this paper, we argue that an environmental education programme in which learning is situated in civic ecology practices also has the potential to address both community and environmental goals. Further, we suggest that civic ecology practices and related environmental education programmes may foster resilience in urban social-ecological systems, through enhancing biological diversity and ecosystem services, and through incorporating diverse forms of knowledge and participatory processes in resource management. By proposing interrelationships among natural resources management, environmental education, and social-ecological systems, we hope to open up discussion of a research agenda focusing on the role of environmental education in systems processes and resilience. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Urban Education, Citizenship Education, Educational Objectives, Systems Approach, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Environment, Social Values, Community Programs, Gardening, Program Descriptions, Conservation (Environment), Ecology, Biodiversity, Natural Resources, Sustainable Development, Role of Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California; New York
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