Resilience and learning: A conspectus for environmental education

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 475-491

  Lundholm, Cecilia ^a   Plummer, Ryan ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental education; Environmental learning; Resilience and human development; Social ecological resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960166832     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2010.505421     Document Type: Article

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