Towards a sustainability education framework: Challenges, concepts and strategies-the contribution from urban planning perspectives

Sustainability

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2247-2269

  Jabareen, Yosef ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pedagogy; Sustainable development; Teaching; Theory and practice; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872406459     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su4092247     Document Type: Article

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