Community-based sustainability: conservation in the Ballarat region
Kentish, Barry and Robottom, Ian 2006, Community-based sustainability: conservation in the Ballarat region, Australian journal of environmental education, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 33-43.
Australian Association for Environmental Education
Place of publication
St. Lucia, Qld
Publication date
2006
ISSN
0814-0626
Summary
The discourse of sustainability is promoted internationally, with the United Nations declaring 2005-2014 as a Decade for Education for Sustainable Development. There is discussion concerning the nature, status and significance of Education for Sustainability and its relationship with the somewhat established discourse of environmental education. This debate requires continuing theorising and one approach is to reflect critically on specific examples of sustainability within specific communities. This article seeks to promote further discussion about sustainability, and to contribute to ongoing theorisation about Education for Sustainability, by considering a particular instance – that of environmental sustainability in the Ballarat region of Victoria. The case study suggests that implementation of this local environmental sustainability strategy was dominated by technocratic and individualistic ideologies.
Notes
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Language
eng
Field of Research
130212 Science, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogy
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