Environmental Futures: Educating for Sustainability in the 21st Century

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2001

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Eflin, James
Ferguson, David

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The Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education

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Integration of environmental education within geographic education stands at a crossroads. The emergence of sustainability, integrating the “three E’s” of ecology, economics, and social equity, presents both important opportunities and challenges for environmental and geographic education. A way forward will require holistic integration of the three E’s to embrace education for sustainability (EFS). This paper is not a research article but presents a conceptual framework that is useful for encouraging geographic and environmental education and research, and it includes a background of the sustainability movement. Projects implementing sustainability education at institutions of higher education are presented, with a case study focusing on an integrated approach at one institution.

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environmental education, education for sustainability, sustainability, sustainable development

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Eflin, J., & Ferguson, D. L. (2001). Environmental futures: Educating for sustainability in the 21st century. Research in Geographic Education, 3(1), pp. 3-31.

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