Evaluation of the non-formal forest education sector in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: Organisations, programmes and framework conditions

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-33

  Grimm, Anne ^a   Mrosek, Thorsten ^a   Martinsohn, Anna ^a   Schulte, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case study; Education for sustainable development; Environmental education; Nonformal education; Questionnaires

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951574204     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504621003602577     Document Type: Article

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