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With the rising environmental problems there are international movements towards sustainability and greening the built environments in order to mitigate the negative environmental impacts of buildings and human activities on environment and human health. This paper presents a range of K-12 Green Schools that were intentionally designed to utilize school building as a 3D-text book for Environmental Education (EE). The aim of this paper is to examine the methods and strategies of designing green school as a teaching tool through case study analysis of the selected schools. The cases provide a diversity of geographic locations, climates, green strategies and coasts. The research depends on the descriptive analytical approach for literature review; multiple-case study analysis to investigate the attributes of green schools that teach. The results revealed a set of approaches for utilizing green schools as a 3D-textbook for EE EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 39 (2020)

This paper addresses the phenomenon of climate-induced displacement. I argue that there is scope for an account of asylum as compensation owed to those displaced by the impacts of climate change which needs only to appeal to minimal normative commitments about the requirements of global justice. I demonstrate the possibility of such an approach through an examination of the work of David Miller. Miller is taken as an exemplar of a broadly ‘international libertarian’ approach to global justice, and his work is a useful vehicle for this project because he has an established view about both responsibility for climate change and about the state’s right to exclude would-be immigrants. In the course of the argument, I set out the relevant aspects of Miller’s views, reconstruct an account of responsibility for the harms faced by climate migrants which is consistent with Miller’s views, and demonstrate why such an account yields an obligation to provide asylum as a form of compensation to ‘climate migrants.’

CO2 emissions from non-domestic buildings - primarily workplaces - make up 18 percent of the UK's carbon footprint. A combination of technology advances and behavioural changes have the potential to make significant impact, but interventions have often been planned in ways which do not take into account the needs, levels of understanding and everyday behavioural contexts of building users - and hence do not achieve the hoped-for success.This paper provides a brief introduction to the Empower project, a current industrial-academic collaboration in the UK which is applying methods from user-centred design practice to understand diverse users' needs, priorities, mental models of energy and decision-making heuristics - as well as the affordances available to them - in a number of office buildings. We are developing and trialling a set of low-cost, simple software interventions tailored to multiple user groups with different degrees of agency over their energy use, which seek to influence more energy efficient behaviour at work in areas such as HVAC, lighting and equipment use. The project comprises an ethnographic research phase, a participatory design programme involving building users in the design of interventions, and iterative trials in a large office building in central London.

Despite being a global problem, climate change has disproportionately large impacts on non-Western countries in the form of extreme weather events, threats to food security, and displacement of communities. Climate change mitigation is therefore an immediate priority requiring both international and local efforts. Motivating public action is especially important because pro-climate policies require public mandate to be approved and implemented. Behavioural scientists have identified communication strategies that can effectively motivate public support for climate action. However, most of this research has been conducted on Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic (or WEIRD) populations, making it unclear if these strategies can be applied elsewhere. In this perspective, we discuss climate change communication strategies that have been developed on WEIRD samples. These include using partisan messengers, conveying social norms, and citing experts. We posit that these climate communication strategies developed in Western societies may not be applicable in other populations. We then consider the cases of two countries–the Czech Republic and India to discuss how context-specific insights about citizens’ priorities, concerns, and experiences with nature can be used to communicate climate change. We build on these case studies to propose INCLUDE, a framework that can be adopted by communicators such as policymakers, elected officials, scientists, and activists in non-WEIRD societies to develop effective climate communication strategies informed by context specific and culture-specific insights.

This paper seeks to address the ongoing issue of weak and strong sustainability, searching for a middle ground. It discusses the differences between weak and strong sustainability arguing for equality and equity between nature and humankind though movement towards an eco-socio-feminist perspective as an idealist point of view. Through this, full equality and balance may be attained. Consilience, No 10 (2013): Issue Ten: 2013

The importance of integrated spatial and transport planning in regional and urban policy making stems from the fundamentally interdependent relationship of land-use, transport demand and transport supply. The adoption of integrated approaches would offer local authorities the possibility to steer urban development towards simultaneously pursuing economic competitiveness, social cohesion, mobility and environmental sustainability. This is even more important in the current situation where the latest developments in innovative mobility services and technology would significantly influence the passenger and freight transport systems. Against this background, the HARMONY research project envisages developing a new generation of harmonised spatial and multimodal transport planning tools which comprehensively model the dynamics of spatial organisation and changing transport sector, taking into consideration the dynamics that new services and technologies introduce. The ambition is to represent new forms of mobility for freight and people in order to enable metropolitan area authorities to lead the transition to a low carbon new mobility era in a sustainable manner. This paper is intended to provide a general overview of the HARMONY project and a description of the conceptual architecture designed for the development of the integrated modelling system and the interaction among the components. HARMONY has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement Nº815269. The content of this paper reflects only the author's view. Neither the European Commission nor the INEA is responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

A Rounder Sense of Purpose is a three-year European Union-funded project. In its first phase has developed a concise set of educator competences for the teaching of education for sustainable development based on a more extensive framework developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in 2011. An important factor in promoting the use of such competences is having a means to assess them. The project has used an assessment approach based on the peer review of dialogue stimulated by brief presentations with follow-up question and answer sessions. Dialogue is assessed in terms of horizontal and vertical learning. This paper reports on an action research exercise based on this assessment approach involving over twenty student volunteers. Initial findings suggest that the approach may provide an efficient and effective means of assessing affective learning in relation to sustainability education. Lo studio europeo A Rounder Sense of Purpose per sviluppare e valutare le competenze per gli educatori dello sviluppo sostenibile Il progetto di ricerca dal titolo A Rounder Sense of Purpose, della durata di tre anni, ha sviluppato, nella sua prima fase, un sintetico set di competenze educative legate all’insegnamento dei temi dello sviluppo sostenibile. Esso ha come riferimento il quadro sviluppato dalla Commissione economica per l’Europa delle Nazioni Unite nel 2011. Un mezzo per promuovere l’utilizzo di tali competenze è rappresentato dalla predisposizione di dispositivi per la loro valutazione. L’approccio utilizzato nel progetto di ricerca per la valutazione si basa sulla peer review e sul dialogo, stimolati da brevi presentazioni con sessioni di domande e risposte di follow-up. Il dialogo è valutato in termini di apprendimento orizzontale e verticale. Il presente articolo intende riportare una attività di ricerca-azione che ha inteso sperimentare questo approccio valutativo, con il coinvolgimento di oltre venti studenti volontari. I risultati preliminari suggeriscono che l’approccio adottato può fornire uno strumento efficiente ed efficace per valutare l’apprendimento affettivo in relazione all’educazione alla sostenibilità. Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 18 No. 2 (2018): Working in the school as a complex organization

Abstract: Purpose: This study is addressing the dearth of research regarding children in the tourism industry and cognate sectors, alongside contributing to existing literature on diaspora, and diaspora tourism. Methods: In order to get the most reliable results, triangulation, which is a form of mixed methods, that enables to view a topic from more than one perspective, is used. Results: Post-colonial, post-conflict, and post-disaster destinations are relying heavily on their diaspora not only for the survival of their tourism industry, but more generally speaking for their economic and social sustainability. It is therefore very important for the country of origin to main a strong link with the members of the diaspora, whether they belong to the first or second generation onward of the diaspora. The main challenge is to keep the connection with the younger generation. The results of this study reveal that childhood experience of the country of origin is a transformative tool which can lead to either dediasporisation (if negative), or transnational attachment (if positive). Implications: Destination Marketing Organisations therefore need to put in place suitable events (and activities) which are based on an edutainment and advertainment model, while applying other key principles. If successful, it is expected that children will go through three different stages: young diaspora thinkers, actioners; and transformers. SUBMITTED: APR 2020, REVISION SUBMITTED: JUN 2020, 2nd REVISION SUBMITTED: JUL 2020, ACCEPTED: AUG 2020, REFEREED ANONYMOUSLY, PUBLISHED ONLINE: 30 OCT 2020