Sustainable communities : skills and learning for place making / Robert Rogerson [and others]
Drawing upon interdisciplinary research conducted across various universities within the United Kingdom, this book offers insights into how local initiatives can enhance sustainable development and engage people in creating better places in which to live. Demonstrating how to embed sustainability in...
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Hatfield, Hertfordshire :
University of Hertfordshire Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Learning about sustainable communities
- 2. Educating built environment professionals for stakeholder engagement
- 3. Generic skills and workplace learning: supporting professional development through online learning communities
- 4. Developing the learning potential of strategic environmental assessment in spatial planning
- 5. Situated learning and the delivery of built environments for sustainable communities
- 6. Understanding and experimenting with skills for community planning
- 7. Raising catchment consciousness: how imaginative engagement can help sustainable use of rivers
- 8. Confronting sustainable community issues in a contested city
- 9. 'Chain gang conservation': young people and environmental volunteering
- 10. Action research to promote leadership and agency in developing sustainable schools and communities
- 11. The future of sustainable communities.