Barriers and pathways to creating sustainability education programs: policy, rhetoric and reality

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 537-555

  Moore, Janet ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 34249945764     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504620500169692     Document Type: Article

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