Castro, Paula

Azeiteiro, Ulisses Miranda

Bacelar-Nicolau, Paula

Leal Filho, Walter

Azul, Anabela Marisa

Biodiversity and Education for Sustainable Development.

Cham

2016

9783319323176

Abstract

This book gathers interdisciplinary reflections from researchers, educators, and other experts on the subject of biodiversity closer to education and learning. The book also highlights its role as an added value to strategic principles for healthy ecosystems and sustainable human development. It promotes critical thinking and foster practices and attitudes for Education for Sustainable Development reconciling education with principles of human behaviour and nature. Readers especially find this book a timely resource in light of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, the Aichi Targets, and the new EU biodiversity strategy ″Our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020″. Along with the challenge of ecosystems and public health, biodiversity conservation is essential for humanity′s continued security and sustainability, as it touches on all aspects of people′s lives.

Biodiversity and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): Tendencies and Perspectives
Walter Leal Filho, Paula Castro, Paula Bacelar-Nicolau, Anabela Marisa Azul and Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro

Part I Education Research on Biodiversity

Conservation of Biological Resources: Why Does It Matter?
Paula Castro, Anabela Marisa Azul and Jorge Paiva

Urban Biodiversity and Cities′ Sustainable Development
Lurdes Barrico and Paula Castro

Education on Biodiversity in the Polar Regions
José C. Xavier, Gerlis Fugmann, Inga Beck, Louise Huffman and Eric Jensen

Teaching Mycology Worldwide
María P. Martín and Roy Watling

Bugs and Society I: Raising Awareness About Endemic Biodiversity
Ana Moura Arroz, Rosalina Gabriel, Isabel R. Amorim, Rita São Marcos and Paulo A.V. Borges

Part II Teaching About Biological Invasions and Threats to Biodiversity

Science and Education at the Centre for Invasion Biology
Sarah J. Davies, G. John Measey, Dorette du Plessis and David M. Richardson

Engaging Society to Fight Invasive Alien Plants in Portugal—One of the Main Threats to Biodiversity
Elizabete Marchante and Hélia Marchante

Part III Engaging Society in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainability

Bugs and Society II: Testing Two Communication Strategies for Public Engagement in the Azores
Isabel R. Amorim, Ana Moura Arroz, Rita São Marcos, Paulo A.V. Borges and Rosalina Gabriel

Communicating Biodiversity Conservation Research Through Dialogue and Mutual Learning in Rural and Indigenous Communities
Isabel Ruiz-Mallén

Education for Sustainability in the Context of Community Forestry
Rita Serra, Patrícia Ferreira, Iryna Skulska, Mayrén Alavez-Vargas, Anailton Salgado, João Arriscado Nunes and Raúl Garcia-Barrios

Part IV Designing Sustainable Futures

Urban Forest Governance: FUTURE—The 100,000 Trees Project in the Porto Metropolitan Area
Marta Pinto, Conceição Almeida, Ana Maria Pereira and Margarida Silva

Reflexive Research and Education for Sustainable Development with Coastal Fishing Communities in the Azores Islands: A Theatre for Questions
Alison Laurie Neilson and Irina Castro

Public Policies and Education for Biodiversity: Brazilian Challenges in a New Global Context
Thiago Lima Klautau de Araújo

Education for Sustainable Development in Brazil: Challenges for Inclusive, Differentiated and Multicultural Education
Andréia Faraoni Freitas Setti and Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro

Protecting Soil Biodiversity and Soil Functions: Current Status and Future Challenges
Sara Mendes, Anabela Marisa Azul, Paula Castro, Jörg Römbke and José Paulo Sousa

Interdisciplinary and Participatory Research at Early Childhood to Biodiversity Education and Sustainable Development
João Miranda, Raquel Maricato, Joana Vila Nova, Joana Margarida Baptista, João Lourenço Monteiro, Nuno Freitas, Odete Gonçalves, Vera Vale and Anabela Marisa Azul

Part V Online Education to Biodiversity and Sustainability Awareness

Engaging ODL Students with Biodiversity Issues: A South African Case Study on the Role of ESD
Rudi W. Pretorius, Mathilda E. Brand and Leslie R. Brown

Online Teaching for Biodiversity Conservation
Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro and Paula Bacelar-Nicolau

Knowledge Dissemination and Best Practice Transfer on Biosafety, Biosecurity and Biorisk Management Through a Sustainable and Effective Education and Awareness System
Carola Argiolas, Veronica Baldo and Maurizio Martellini

10.1007/978-3-319-32318-3