Social-ecological resilience and environmental education: Synopsis, application, implications

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 493-509

  Plummer, Ryan ^a,b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Environmental education; Resilience; Social ecological systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960163621     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2010.505423     Document Type: Article

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