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Learner-Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Learner-Centered Teaching for Environmental and Sustainability Studies
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    Chapter 2 Which Is Most Sustainable? Using Everyday Objects to Examine Trade-Offs Among the “Three Pillars” of Sustainability
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    Chapter 3 An Introduction to Systems Thinking Using Plastic Dinosaurs
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    Chapter 4 An Introductory Examination of Worldviews and Why They Matter for Environmental and Sustainability Studies
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    Chapter 5 Building Resilience: Modeling Resilience Concepts Using Legos
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    Chapter 6 Eco-crimes and Eco-redemptions: Discussing the Challenges and Opportunities of Personal Sustainability
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    Chapter 7 Engaging with Complexity: Exploring the Terrain of Leadership for Sustainability
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    Chapter 8 Discovering Authentic Hope: Helping Students Reflect on Learning and Living with Purpose
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    Chapter 9 Teaching How Scientific Consensus Is Developed Through Simplified Meta-analysis of Peer-Reviewed Literature
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    Chapter 10 Understanding Ecosystems and Their Services Through Apollo 13 and Bottle Models
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    Chapter 11 Using Soil Organisms to Explore Ecosystem Functioning, Services, and Sustainability
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    Chapter 12 Fire, Pollution, and Grazing: Oh My! A Game in Which Native and Invasive Plants Compete Under Multiple Disturbance Regimes
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    Chapter 13 Exploring Trophic Cascades in Lake Food Webs with a Spreadsheet Model
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    Chapter 14 Ants, Elephants, and Experimental Design: Understanding Science and Examining Connections Between Species Interactions and Ecosystem Processes
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    Chapter 15 Teaching Lyme Disease Ecology Through a Primary Literature Jigsaw Activity
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    Chapter 16 A Fishery Activity to Examine the Tragedy of the Common Goldfish Cracker
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    Chapter 17 Making Biodiversity Stewardship Tangible Using a Place-Based Approach
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    Chapter 18 Conservation Triage: Debating Which Species to Save and Why
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    Chapter 19 Everything Cannot Be Equal: Ranking Priorities and Revealing Worldviews to Guide Watershed Management
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    Chapter 20 Location, Location, Location! Analyzing Residential Development in Environmentally-Fragile Areas
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    Chapter 21 Tasting Sustainability: Using Multisensory Activities to Retune Food Preferences
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    Chapter 22 Relationships Between Consumption and Sustainability: Assessing the Effect of Life Cycle Costs on Market Price
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    Chapter 23 Business Sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line: Considering the Interrelationships of People, Profit, and Planet
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    Chapter 24 A Triple-Bottom-Line Analysis of Energy-Efficient Lighting
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    Chapter 25 Go with the Flow: Analyzing Energy Use and Efficiency in the USA
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    Chapter 26 Exploring Complexities of Energy Options Through a Jigsaw Activity
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    Chapter 27 Introducing the Conflicting Meanings of “Justice” Using a Candy-Distribution Exercise
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    Chapter 28 Beyond Band-Aids: Using Systems Thinking to Assess Environmental Justice
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    Chapter 29 Engaging the Empathic Imagination to Explore Environmental Justice
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    Chapter 30 Helping Students Envision Justice in the Sustainable City
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    Chapter 31 Social-Ecological Systems Mapping to Enhance Students’ Understanding of Community-Scale Conflicts Related to Industrial Pollution
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    Chapter 32 The Skies, the Limits: Assessing the Benefits and Drawbacks of Tighter US Soot Emission Standards
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    Chapter 33 Don’t Blame the Trees: Using Data to Examine How Trees Contribute to Air Pollution
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    Chapter 34 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Green Roofs: A Case Study for Literature Research and Critical Thinking
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    Chapter 35 The Story of Source Reliability: Practicing Research and Evaluation Skills Using “The Story of Stuff” Video
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    Chapter 36 Critically Evaluating Non-Scholarly Sources Through Team-Based Learning
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    Chapter 37 Using the Insight, Question, and Challenge (IQC) Framework to Improve Students’ Environmental Communication Skills
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    Chapter 38 Building Students’ Communication Skills and Understanding of Environmental and Sustainability Issues Interactively and Cumulatively with Pecha Kucha Presentations
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    Chapter 39 Engaging in Climate Change Conversations: A Role-Playing Exercise to Cultivate Effective Communication
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    Chapter 40 Writing Letters to the Editor to Promote Environmental Citizenship and Improve Student Writing
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    Chapter 41 Captioning Political Cartoons from Different Perspectives as a Tool for Student Reflection
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    Chapter 42 Analyzing Nature as a Persuasive Tool in Advertisements
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    Chapter 43 Making and Assessing Art in the Sustainability Classroom
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Title
Learner-Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28543-6
ISBNs
978-3-31-928541-2, 978-3-31-928543-6
Editors

Loren B. Byrne

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Unknown 85 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 14%
Lecturer 8 9%
Researcher 5 6%
Professor 4 5%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 25 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 15 18%
Social Sciences 15 18%
Engineering 5 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 5%
Arts and Humanities 3 4%
Other 12 14%
Unknown 31 36%