Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Preface -- Part I: Introduction to environmental management -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Aims and background -- Key terms and concepts -- Definition and scope of EM -- The evolution of EM -- Sustainable development (SD) -- EM problems and opportunities -- Encouraging EM -- Summary -- Further reading -- EM books -- SD books -- EM journals -- SD journals -- www sources -- Professional bodies -- EM courses -- Chapter 2: Environmental management: Character and goals -- Character and goals of EM -- Concept of limits to development -- Polluter-pays principle -- Precautionary principle -- EM challenges -- Need to be adaptable and resilient and to seek to reduce human vulnerability -- EM ethics and institutions -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Chapter 3: Environmental management and science -- Environment and environmental science -- Structure and function of the environment -- Trophic level and organic productivity -- The ecosystem -- Biosphere cyclic processes -- How stable and resilient are environments? -- Stability -- Resilience -- Threatening environmental events -- Biodiversity -- Environmental limits and resources -- Environmental limits -- Resources -- The Gaia hypothesis -- Environmental crisis -- Environmental and ecosystems modelling, the ecosystem concept, environmental systems and ecosystem management -- Applying the ecosystem concept to tourism, conservation and heritage management -- Applying the ecosystem concept to urban and periurban management -- Applying the ecosystem concept to conservation management -- Environmental systems and ecosystem planning and management - biogeophysical units -- Ecozones, ecoregions and ecodistricts. , Coastal zone and marine ecosystem planning and management -- River basin planning and management -- Watershed/catchment planning and management -- Bioregionalism -- Agroecosystem analysis and management -- Telecoupling -- Landscape ecology approach -- Ekistics -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Chapter 4: Environmental management background -- Environmental concern 1750 to 1960 -- Environmental concern 1960 to 1980 -- Environmental concern 1980 to the present -- Environmentalism, ecologism and the Green Movement -- Environmentalism -- Ecologism -- Green spirituality -- The Green Movement -- Dark- deep- light- and bright-greens -- Social sciences and environmentalism -- A late twentieth-century paradigm shift? -- Ethics for EM -- Women and the environment -- Social aspects of resource use -- The greening of economics -- Human capital / social capital / cultural capital / built capital -- Global environmental problems and economics -- Environmental accounts -- Estimating the value of the environment and natural resources -- Cost-benefit analysis -- BATNEEC and BPEO -- Shadow prices -- Paying for and encouraging EM -- Fair trade -- Contract farming -- Green taxes -- Pigouvian taxes -- Carbon emissions taxes and incentives -- Tradable energy quotas -- Energy use taxes -- REDD and REDD+ -- Green aid -- Natural capital and ecosystem services -- Natural capital -- Ecosystem services -- Debt, structural adjustment and the environment -- Debt-for-nature/environment swaps -- Trade and EM -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Part II: Practice -- Chapter 5: Environmental management, business and law -- The US National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) - a 1970 environmental Magna Carta? -- EM and business/organisations -- Corporate visions of stewardship - a paradigm shift to EM ethics? -- Corporate social responsibility (CSR). , The triple bottom line -- Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) -- Approaches adopted to promote EM in business/organisations -- Industrial ecology -- Ecological engineering -- Green marketing -- Green consumerism and consumer protection bodies -- Eco-labelling -- Total quality management and environment -- EM systems -- Green and sustainable supply chain management -- Life-cycle assessment -- Covenants -- Small and medium enterprises/businesses and the environment -- Greenwashing -- EM and business: the current situation -- EM and law -- European law and EM -- International law and EM -- International law and sovereignty issues -- Conflict management and EM -- Indigenous peoples and environmental law -- International conferences and agreements -- Alternative dispute resolution -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Chapter 6: Participants in environmental management -- Learning from past peoples -- Stakeholders -- Stakeholder analysis and stakeholder management -- Facilitators -- Citizens -- Indigenous groups -- Women -- Individuals and groups seeking change -- Individuals and groups with little power -- Displaced people -- Public -- Participatory EM -- Aarhus Convention -- Transition Towns Movement -- Funding and research bodies -- Communications -- Controllers -- Traditions and spirituality -- Accreditation -- International bodies and agreements -- NGOs and EM -- Millennium and ongoing development goals -- Unions -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Chapter 7: Environmental management approaches -- EM focus and stance -- Political ecology focus and stance -- Political economy focus and stance -- Human ecology focus and stance -- Participatory focus and stance -- Participatory appraisal -- Local, community, regional and sectoral EM -- Adaptive EM -- Tools, expert systems and decision support for EM -- Tools for EM. , Expert systems -- Decision support for EM -- Systems and network approaches for EM -- Ecosystem approaches -- Ecosystem services -- Bioregional approaches -- Agroecosystem approaches -- Urban ecosystem approaches -- SMART cities or ecosystem cities approaches -- River basin ecosystem approaches -- Watershed and catchment systems approaches -- Socio-economic and socio-economic-environmental systems -- Environmental management systems -- The state and EM -- Non-Western EM -- China -- India -- Southeast Asia -- West Asia, Middle East and Northern Africa -- Africa -- South and Central America and the Caribbean -- Transboundary and global EM -- Integrated EM -- Strategic EM -- Strategic environmental assessment -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Chapter 8: Data, standards, indicators, benchmarks, goal setting and objectives, monitoring, surveillance, models and auditing -- Tools, data, data analysis, statistics and interpretation -- Fuzzy data -- Big data -- Open data -- Data assessment/analysis -- Indicators, standards and benchmarks -- Indicators -- SD indicators -- Standards -- Benchmarks -- Setting goals and objectives and getting an overall view -- Setting goals -- Scoping -- Pilot study -- Life-cycle assessment -- Participatory assessment -- Monitoring -- Ultimate environmental threshold assessment -- Remote sensing, GIS and GPS -- Remote sensing -- GIS -- GPS -- Business and project evaluation monitoring tools -- Surveillance -- Modelling -- Environmental auditing/assessment, eco-auditing, environmental accounting, SD auditing and environmental compliance auditing -- Environmental auditing -- Eco-auditing -- Environmental accounting -- SD assessment/audit and state of the environment accounts -- Environmental assessment/appraisal -- Supply chain auditing -- Environmental compliance auditing -- Eco-footprint and carbon footprint. , Integrated environmental assessment -- Cumulative impact assessment -- Summary -- Further reading -- Books -- Journals -- www sources -- Chapter 9: Proactive assessment, prediction and forecasting -- Futures studies -- Predicting future scenarios -- Forecasting -- Futures modelling and future scenario prediction -- Hazard assessment and risk assessment -- Environmental impact assessment -- Dealing with indirect and cumulative impacts -- Social impact assessment -- Other tools for assessing the potential for development and impacts of development -- Ecological impact assessment -- Habitat evaluation -- Land-use planning -- Land capability classification, evaluation and appraisal -- Land suitability assessment -- The universal soil loss equation and revised universal soil loss equations -- Agroecosystem zones -- Farming systems research -- Participatory assessment approaches -- Livelihoods assessment -- Vulnerability studies -- Technology assessment -- Health risk assessment and health impact assessment -- Computers and expert systems -- Adaptive environmental assessment and management -- Integrated, comprehensive and regional impact assessment, integrated and strategic EM -- Integrated and comprehensive impact assessment -- Integrated regional environmental assessment -- Strategic environmental assessment -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Part III: Global challenges and opportunities -- Chapter 10: Resources: Character, opportunities and challenges -- Resources characteristics and management issues -- Water -- Floods -- Drought and reduced river flows -- Water resources management -- Developing rivers -- Small reservoirs and tanks -- Barrages -- Large dams -- Interbasin transfers -- Shared rivers -- Lakes and ponds -- Irrigation, runoff collection and rain-fed agriculture -- Air -- Land and soil -- Wetlands -- Energy. , Food and commodities.

Note: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Activism! Toward a More Radical Science and Technology Education -- Navigating the Contemporary -- Building a Collection -- A Brief Overview of the Collection -- Framing a More Radical Approach to Science and Technology Education -- Science and Technology Education Should Be Critically Reworked in Relation to Contemporary Economic, Social, Ecological and Ma... -- Science and Technology Education Should Be Critically Reworked as Political Practice -- Science and Technology Education Should Be Critically Reworked to Support Learners as Subjects in Change and Not Objects of Ch... -- Science and Technology Education Should Be Critically Reworked as Moral and Ethical Praxis -- Partialities and Possibilities -- References -- Part I: Constituting Theories -- Preamble -- Chapter 2: The Elephant in the Room: Science Education, Neoliberalism and Resistance -- Opening -- Foucault´s Neoliberalism -- Occupy Wall Street: The Incessancy of Resistance -- Science Education, Neoliberalism and Activism/Resistance -- Not an Ending but a Beginning -- References -- Chapter 3: Science Education as a Site for Biopolitical Engagement and the Reworking of Subjectivities: Theoretical Considerat... -- A Context for Science Education -- Biopolitics and Biopower -- The ``Making of Subjects´´ -- Biopolitics and Subjectivities in Science Education -- Racisms, Colonialisms and the Power to Make Die -- Neoliberal Subjectivity -- Sex/Gender and Sexuality -- The ``Ethical Subject´´ in Science Education -- The Biosubject of Biotechnology -- Biopolitics as a Path Forward -- References -- Chapter 4: A Critical Pedagogy for STEM Education -- Introduction -- Global Capitalism -- STEM and Activism in Education -- STEM Education, Research and Practice -- A Critical Pedagogy for STEM Education -- Community and Revolution. , Theoretical Freestyle -- Analytical Freestyle in Science Education -- Closing Remarks -- References -- Chapter 5: Becoming Part of the Solution: Learning about Activism, Learning through Activism, Learning from Activism -- Making the Case for an Action-Oriented Science Curriculum -- Building a Curriculum: Learning About the Issues -- Building a Curriculum: Learning to Care -- Engaging Emotions, Managing Emotions -- Building a Curriculum: Learning to Act -- Learning about, through and from Action -- Apprenticeship in Activism -- Further Considerations -- References -- Chapter 6: From Promoting the Techno-sciences to Activism - A Variety of Objectives Involved in the Teaching of SSIs -- Variation in Educational Objectives -- The Implications of the Educational Choices on SSIs -- Institutional Activism in Agricultural Education in France -- Scientific, Humanistic and Political Education -- References -- Chapter 7: Hopeful Practices: Activating and Enacting the Pedagogical and Political Potential in Crisis -- Science, Technology, and Society Education (STSE) -- Understanding and Learning from Crisis -- Learning from and Through Crisis: Opportunities -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Using Collaborative Inquiry to Better Understand Teaching and Learning -- Science Curricula as a Central Factor in the Reform of Science Education -- Chapter Overview -- Changing Faces of Research and Science Education -- Dealing with Difference in Research on Teaching and Learning -- Participants Doing Research to Understand and Improve Practice -- Listening to and Learning from Others´ Voices -- Learning to Teach from and with Others -- Searching for and Learning from Spikes in the Curve -- Authentic Inquiry as an Overarching Methodology -- Reflections on the Changing Faces of My Research Methodologies -- References. , Chapter 9: From Knowledge to Action? Re-embedding Science Learning Within the Planet´s Web -- Introduction -- Complex Problems and the Role of Science and Technology -- A Critical Role for Science Education -- The Outline of a Science for Sustainability -- Acquiring Consciousness of Limits -- Opening Up Towards Dialogue -- The Thinking of the `Others´ -- Enhancing Life Through Cultural Diversity -- Redefining Science Education? -- From Objective and Objectifying Knowledge to a Science of Relationships -- Dealing with Conflict -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: Education for Sustainable Contraction as Appropriate Response to Global Heating -- The Heating Is Happening -- Denial and Cognitive Dissonance in Response to Global Heating -- Denial and Cognitive Dissonance in the Field of Education for Sustainable Development -- Education for Sustainable Contraction (ESC): Nailing Nine Propositions to the Laboratory Door -- References -- Chapter 11: Learning to Let Go of Sustainability -- Introduction -- Sustainability as Restoring -- The Paradox of Sustainable Development -- To Hold onto, or to Let Go? -- Sustainability as Returning -- Romanticizing the Return? -- Resisting the Return -- Complicating the Return -- Learning to Let Go of Sustainability -- Letting Go of Sustainability -- Remembering Forward as a Different Way of Being in the World -- Coda: The Glass Jar -- References -- Part II: The Public Sphere -- Preamble -- Chapter 12: Street Medicine as a Science Education for Activists -- Know Your Street Medics -- States of Emergency: Where Only Street Medics Dare to Tread -- Street Medicine and the State of Exception -- Street Medicine Is Education -- The Street and the School -- References -- Chapter 13: Why Science Education Mediates the Way We Eat -- Introduction -- Neoliberalism in Science Education, In Brief. , A Pocket of Resistance-Local and Organic Food -- Organic Farmers´ Market Culture -- A Responsibly Nurtured Organic Place -- Local Knowledge -- Interdisciplinary Knowledge -- Change and Adaptability -- Embodied Change and Positionality -- Environmental Condition -- A Market Creates a Relationship with Food -- A Critique of Neoliberalism -- Implications for School Science -- References -- Chapter 14: From-Within-the-Event: A Post-constructivist Perspective on Activism, Ethics, and Science Education -- Environmental Activism at Work -- Transforming the Practices in One Municipality -- Science Education as/for Participation in the Community -- The Morality of Community-Based Activism: Is It Something to Feel Good About? -- From Activism to the Eventness of Events -- Activism -- From-Within-the-Event or the Eventness of Events -- Activism and Ethics -- Classically Understood -- From-Within-the-Event -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15: #OccupyTech -- The Rise of Internetworked Social Movements -- Prefigurative Politics and Technology -- Hacking the Technical Code -- The Repertoire of Electronic Contention -- OccupyTech -- Disruptive Technologies: Building Tools for Revolution -- Communications -- From Technology to Technique: Prefiguring Change -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 16: Trajectories of Socioscientific Issues in News Media: Looking into the Future -- Introduction -- The ``Black Box´´ of News Media -- The Media and Presentations of Science -- Influence of Media -- Manipulations of the Media -- Commercial Interests of the Media -- The Competency and Practices of Journalists -- Prelude to a News Story -- The J-School Experience: Insights into Media Practices Reporting Science -- Modifiers and ``Verbs of Saying´´ -- Being the ``Instant Expert´´ -- The Reducibility of Complex Relationships -- Production of a News Story. , Demonstrating the Need for Science Journalist Experts in News Media -- Connections Between the SMCC Anecdote and the Radio Workshop -- Copy Story Modification -- Analysis of Copy Story Modifications -- The Media Making Sense of Science: A Case Study of Two Publications -- Conclusions and Implications About Science in the News Media -- Implications for Understanding Science from the News Media -- Looking at the Preparation of Journalists -- Implications of Using News Media in the Classroom for Studying Socioscientific Issues -- References -- Chapter 17: The Perils, Politics, and Promises of Activist Science -- Introduction -- The Perils of Activist Science -- Historical Lessons from Ecology -- A View from the Front Lines -- All Science Is Political, but Politics Are Complicated -- Activism and Power -- References -- Chapter 18: Passive No More -- Introduction -- Awakening Dissonance -- Activism for Inaction, a Complacency That Will Kill and Destroy -- Growing Up on an Overheated Planet -- The Neoliberal Activist Attack on Climate Science and the Environment -- Disclosing Power, the Courtiers to Climate Disaster -- Reinventing Participatory Democracy -- Developing a Skeptical Way of Reading the Media -- Whose Long-Term Interests Are Being Served? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 19: Joining Up and Scaling Up: Analyzing Resistance to Canada´s ``Dirty Oil´´ -- Activism Against the Oilsands -- Aboriginal Activism -- Environmental Activism -- Religiously-Based Activism -- Labour Activism -- Growing the Movement (Horizontally and Vertically) -- Joining Up: Creating Coalitions Among Unlikely Allies -- Scaling Up: Crossing Borders -- Building Cross-Organizational, Cross-Border Consensus -- Assessing the Movement´s Strengths and Challenges -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Elementary and Secondary Education -- Preamble. , Chapter 20: We Got Involved and We Got to Fix It!: Action-Oriented School Science.

Note: The International Climate Regimeand its Driving-Forces: Obstacles and Chances on the Way to a Global Response to the Problem of Climate Change -- Table of content -- Table of figures -- Appendixes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Scientific and economical consequences of anthropogenic climate change -- 2.1. The natural and anthropogenic greenhouse effect -- 2.1.1. The IPCC and its 4th Assessment Report -- 2.1.2. The Stern Review and the economics of climate change -- 3. The regime theory -- 3.1. Three schools of thought within the theory of international regime -- 3.1.1. The interest-based approach -- 3.1.1.1. Two-level games -- 3.1.2. The power-based approach -- 3.1.3. The knowledge-based approach -- 3.2. Application of the three approaches to the issue area of climate change -- 4. The issue area of climate change current climate regime -- 4.1. The current climate change regime -- 4.1.1. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- 4.1.2. The Kyoto-Protocol -- 4.1.2.1. The exit of the USA from the Kyoto Protocol -- 4.1.2.2. Basic weaknesses of the Kyoto Protocol -- 4.1.3. The Bali roadmap -- 4.2. Priorities of the main actors -- 4.2.1. The United States of America -- 4.2.1.1. Obama's New Climate Policy -- 4.2.2. China -- 4.2.2.1. China's plead for consumption-based inventories -- 4.3. International negotiations for a post-2012 agreement in Copenhagen and Cancún -- 5. Analysis of the driving-forces of the climate regime -- 5.1. The effectiveness and robustness of regimes -- 5.2. The driving-forces of the international climate regime and its consequences for the effectiveness of the regime -- 5.2.1. Analysis of the current climate regime -- 5.2.2. Analysis of the negotiations for a post-2012 agreement -- 5.2.3. Outlook regarding the regime's potential future driving-forces -- 5.2.3.1. A shift in Obama's political priority setting. , 5.2.3.2. Developments at the state level in the US -- 5.3. Conclusion -- References -- Monographs -- Scientific papers in omnibus volumes -- Articles in refereed journals -- Scientific publications -- Newspaper and magazine articles -- Internet sources (chronological after usage in the text) -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Appendix 5 -- Appendix 6 -- Appendix 7 -- Appendix 8 -- Appendix 9 -- Appendix 10 -- Appendix 11 -- Appendix 12.