Social Learning in Environmental Management
Towards a Sustainable Future
Edited By Meg Keen, Valerie A. Brown and Rob Dyball
Paperback
May 2005 •
288 pages •
234 x 156mm •
ISBN 9781844071838
Social Learning in Environmental Management explores and expands the approaches to collective learning most needed to help individuals, communities, experts and governments work together to achieve greater social and ecological sustainability. It provides practical frameworks and case studies to assist environmental managers in building partnerships that can support learning and action on issues arising from human impacts on the life-support systems of our planet.
In this book, social learning frameworks and case studies address the three areas of collaboration, community, government and professional, in some detail. The resulting guidelines and their practical applications provide key source material for undergraduate and postgraduate professional education in the fields of social and environmental sciences, political science, planning, geography and urban studies, and also for professionals in environmental management.
CONTENTS (Expand Contents)
Section I: A Social Learning Approach to Environmental Management
Social Learning: A New Approach to Environmental
Management
Traditions of Understanding: Language, Dialogue and Experience
Complex Adaptive Systems: Constructing Mental Models
Section II: Learning Partnerships with Communities
Communities’ Self-determination: Whose Interests Count?
Partnerships in Civil Society: Linking Bridging and Bonding Social Capital
Combining People, Place and Learning
Collaborative Learning: Bridging Scales and Interests
Section III: Learning Partnerships with Government
Linking Community and Government: Islands and Beaches
Changing Governments: Councils Embracing the Precautionary Principle
Felt Knowing: A Foundation for Local Government Practice
Section IV: Personal and Professional Learning
The Ethics of Social Engagement: Learning to Live and Living to Learn
Science Communication for Scientists: Reshaping a Culture
The Reflective Practitioner: Practising What We Preach
Section V: Learning for the Future
Lessons from the Past, Learning for the Future
Index
Meg Keen is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management and Development, Australian National University (ANU). Valerie A. Brown is Emeritus Professor and Director, Local Sustainability Project, School of Resources, Environment and Society, ANU. Rob Dyball is Lecturer at the Human Ecology Programme, School of Resources, Environment and Society, ANU.