Challenges for educators of building people's capacity for mitigating and adapting to climate change

Learning for Sustainability in Times of Accelerating Change

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 365-379

  Stevenson, Robert B ^a   Nicholls, Jennifer ^a   Whitehouse, Hilary ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-757-8     Document Type: Chapter

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