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Applying a resilience systems framework to urban environmental education

Applying a resilience systems framework to urban environmental education 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. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environmental Education Research Taylor & Francis

Applying a resilience systems framework to urban environmental education

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Taylor & Francis
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Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
ISSN
1469-5871
eISSN
1350-4622
DOI
10.1080/13504620903003290
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Abstract

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.

Journal

Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis

Published: Aug 1, 2009

Keywords: resilience; systems; urban; diversity; participation; natural resources management; civic ecology

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