Biodiversity and Education for Sustainable Development

This book gathers interdisciplinary reflections fromresearchers, educators, and other experts on the subject of biodiversity closerto education and learning. The book also highlights its role as an added valueto strategic principles for healthy ecosystems and sustainable humandevelopment. It promotes critical thinking and foster practices and attitudesfor Education for Sustainable Development reconciling education with principlesof human behaviour and nature. Readers especially find this book a timelyresource in light of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011¿2020, the AichiTargets, and the new EU biodiversity strategy ¿Our life insurance, our naturalcapital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020¿. Along with the challenge ofecosystems and public health, biodiversity conservation is essential forhumanity¿s continued security and sustainability, as it touches on all aspectsof people¿s lives.

Addresses highly topical subjects: biodiversity, education

Biodiversity and Educationfor Sustainable Development (ESD): Tendencies and Perspectives.- Conservationof Biological Resources: Why it Matters.- Urban Biodiversity and Cities'Sustainable Development.- Education on Biodiversity in the Polar Regions.- TeachingMycology Worldwide.- Bugs and Society.- Science and Education at the Centre forInvasion Biology.- Engaging Society to Fight Invasive Alien Plants in Portugal One of the Main Threats to Biodiversity.- Engaging ODL Students withBiodiversity Issues: A South African Case Study on the Role of ESD.- Educationfor Sustainability in the Context of Community Forestry.