I volunteered to review this book because it immediately struck me that this cannot be an academic exercise. Many small island developing states (SIDS) have already experienced negative effects of climate change such as loss of land in coastal areas due to rising sea levels, increasing frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones or hurricanes; they are especially vulnerable. In other words, while the big and rich countries experience a serious backlash in climate change awareness and an almost complete absence of decisive and effective action — the topic is either struck from the political agenda or the portrayal in the media implies widespread disagreement amongst scientists, which leads to falling support for political measures by the public — the questions for these countries have a different dimension of urgency. We are talking about survival here. So I opened the book with high hopes, since it always made sense to me that the only way to test education for sustainable development (ESD) was to see whether there are any real world changes happening. ... (Orig.)
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