Educational research and development to promote sustainable development in the City of Helsinki: Helping the Accessible Helsinki Programme 2001-2011 to achieve its goals

International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 197-209

  Åhlberg, Mauri ^a   Turja, Lauri ^b   Robinson, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Helsinki City Service Center   (Finland)

^c MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessible city; Concept mapping; Didactics of sustainable development; Education for sustainability; Educational research; Improved concept mapping; Lifelong learning; Research and development; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; LIFE CYCLE; MAPPING; PLANNING;

ACCESSIBLE CITY; CONCEPT MAPPING; EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH; LIFE LONG LEARNING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0842302368     PISSN: 14746778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJESD.2003.003321     Document Type: Article

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