You say you want a revolution? Transforming education and capacity building in response to global change

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 28, Issue , 2013, Pages 48-59

  O'Brien, Karen ^a   Reams, Jonathan ^b   Caspari, Anne ^c   Dugmore, Andrew ^d   Faghihimani, Maryam ^a   Fazey, Ioan ^e   Hackmann, Heide ^f   Manuel Navarrete, David ^g   Marks, John ^h   Miller, Riel ⁱ   Raivio, Kari ^j   Romero Lankao, Patricia ^k   Virji, Hassan ^l   Vogel, Coleen ^m   Winiwarter, Verena ⁿ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c Generative Impact ^*  (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^f International Social Science Council   (France)

^g ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h European Science Foundation   (France)

ⁱ UNESCO   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^k NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^l International START Secretariat   (United States)

^m STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

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Author keywords

Capacity building; Education; Global environmental change; Transformation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CAPACITY BUILDING; CHANGE MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; LEARNING; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 84876440343     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2012.11.011     Document Type: Article

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