Education for Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems: From Theory to Practice (Routledge Studies in Sustainability)

The goal of Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) education is to prepare students to facilitate social learning in communities that builds knowledge of, capacity for, and commitment to sustainability to facilitate the emergence of sustainable societies.

The SHES approach to sustainability education relies on complexity-based systems thinking that transcends disciplinary boundaries. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the SHES approach, including its rationale and theoretical foundation, its pedagogy and practical applications in curricula, and ways to support the approach through institutional administration.

This book will be of great interest to academics and students of education, environmental sciences and studies, sustainability and sustainable development, natural resource management, conservation, environmental policy, environmental planning, and related fields in higher education. Educators can use this book as a guide to SHES pedagogy, curriculum design, sustainability, environmental studies, sustainable development, and sustainable well-being. Administrators will find the book useful in establishing, evaluating, staffing, and promoting programs based on the SHES approach.

Will Focht is Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA

Michael A. Reiter is Professor of Environmental Science at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA

Paul A. Barresi is Professor of Political Science and Environmental Law at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

Richard C. Smardon is a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, USA