Week 1: Introduction to Environmental Stewardship from a Global Perspective
Introduction
This Week, You Will Be Expected to:
- Become familiar with a bank of environmental stewardship terms and topics and begin your own glossary of terms.
- Begin to recognize and appreciate different perspectives on stewardship from across the world.
- Contemplate what it means to be a steward of the environment, and consider how environmental stewardship is important to and can be practiced in your location, industry, etc.
- Communicate your understanding of environmental stewardship terms and topics.
- Design an environmental stewardship award.
Questions to Consider Throughout this Week:
- What are the meanings of these terms: environmental education, stewardship, ecology, and conservation vs. preservation?
- What does it mean to be an environmental steward?
- Why is environmental stewardship important?
- What theoretical constructs or frameworks inform thinking around environmental stewardship?
Readings and Content
- Cutting Through the Jargon: Critical Concepts in Sustainability Education
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- Current Challenges to the Concept of Sustainability
- Cabezudo, A., Cicala, F., de Bivar Black, M. L., da Silva, M. (2019). Global education guidelines: Concepts and methodologies on global education for educators and policy makers. North-South Centre of the Council of Europe. [PARTIC. CHAPTER A]
Environmental Education
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- Stapp, W. B., Bennett, D., Bryan, W., Fulton, J., MacGregor, J., Nowak, P., … & Havlick, S. (1969). The concept of environmental education. Journal of environmental education, 1(1), 30-31.
- Guo, X., & Marinova, D. (2011). Environmental awareness in China: Facilitating the greening of the economy. SUSTAINING OUR FUTURE: understanding and living with uncertainty, 1673-1679.
Environmental Sustainability Education
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- Wals, A.E.J. & Kieft, G. (2010) Education for sustainable development, research overview. Sida Review, Stockholm.
Education for Sustainable Development
Stewardship
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- Stewardship Versus Citizenship
- Bennett, N. J., Whitty, T. S., Finkbeiner, E., Pittman, J., Bassett, H., Gelcich, S., & Allison, E. H. (2018). Environmental stewardship: a conceptual review and analytical framework. Environmental management, 61(4), 597-614.
Ecology
Conservation vs. Preservation
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- Minteer, B. A., & Corley, E. A. (2007). Conservation or preservation? A qualitative study of the conceptual foundations of natural resource management. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 20(4), 307-333.
2. What Does it Mean to be an Environmental Steward?
Multiple Conceptualizations of Environmental Stewardship
Theoretical Constructs and Frameworks that Inform Thinking around Environmental Stewardship
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- See Sustainability Science Vol. 14, Issue 3 for several peer-reviewed articles
3. Why is Environmental Stewardship Important?
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- The Importance of Environmental Stewardship
- Pathway to Stewardship: A Framework for Children and Youth
- National Guideline on Sustainable Development and Environmental Stewardship for Professional Engineers
- Isahak, A., Surif, S., Sahani, M., Gill, A., & Phang, J. (2013). Environmental stewardship for gold mining in tropical regions. Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management, 1(1), 37-42.
The Different Implications of Environmental Stewardship Around the World
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- Product Stewardship in Australia
- The Nature Conservancy Latin America
- Mobilizing Against Dispossession: Gold Mining and a Local Resistance Movement in Mongolia.
- Henriksen, T. (2016). The Arctic Ocean, environmental stewardship, and the Law of the Sea. UC Irvine L. Rev., 6, 61.