Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ433712
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0085-0969
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Re-thinking Sustainable Development.
Trainer, Ted
Geographical Education, v6 n2 p24-30 1990
Discusses the overconsumption and overproduction of industrialized nations and the condition of developing nations. Considers the global revolution in institutions, systems, values, and lifestyles necessary to implement sustainable development. Depicts a world of decentralized, self-sufficient communities, and describes education's potential role in achieving and perpetuating that society. (CH)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Consciousness Raising, Conservation (Environment), Decentralization, Depleted Resources, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Ecology, Economic Change, Economic Development, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Futures (of Society), Geography Instruction, Global Approach, Higher Education, Quality of Life, Role of Education, Social Change, Teacher Responsibility, World Problems
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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