UNIVERSITY‐BASED INITIATIVES IN FAVOUR OF ECOSYSTEM REHABILITATION FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN GREAT LAKES

Autor:	George R. Francis
Rok vydání:	1990
Předmět:	Economic growth Government Rehabilitation Higher education business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Public relations Education Environmental studies medicine Sociology Role playing business Discipline Environmental degradation Action learning
Zdroj:	Higher Education in Europe. 15:76-85
ISSN:	1469-8358 0379-7724
DOI:	10.1080/0379772900150410
Popis:	On‐going attempts by governments to implement measures intended to eliminate environmental degradation in the nearshore waters of the Great Lakes have revealed a critical need for integrative understanding that transcends disciplinary and professional specialisms. Academics from universities in the United States and Canada began, ten years ago, to meet with government officials and with people from nongovernmental organizations to find solutions to the problems in question. Groups of academics followed up these meetings with policy oriented studies using systems and transdisciplinary perspectives. Results have been readily disseminated into a wider constituency of interests because of the participation of nonacademics in the guiding of the studies. Similar collaborative approaches have been used to design role playing exercises for students in environmental studies courses at universities, using various Great Lakes situations as examples. An action learning/research mode lies at the core of environmental ...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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