Sustainability Education through Green Infrastructure
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Education and Approaches".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2025) | Viewed by 1648
Special Issue Editors
Interests: green building literacy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue examines sustainability education in, of, and for green infrastructure. Green infrastructure is a critical consideration for myriad environmental concerns related to air, water, natural resources, and our changing climate. Sustainable development—from urban forms to landscapes, to buildings, to building interiors—has long been viewed through the lens of green technologies and innovations that are measured in terms of environmental performance. Less commonly examined is the social performance of sustainably built environments. However, the social dimensions of green infrastructure are gaining traction in the literature, with a particular emphasis on the educational potential of sustainable environments. This work starts to reveal the ways that green infrastructure is both a 3D communication tool for sustainability and a source for rich formal and informal science lessons that integrate human–ecological systems.
This Special Issue topic crosses substantive aims of the journal to address sustainable development and sustainable education. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Green infrastructure (urban spaces, buildings, interiors, products) as a tool for science communication;
- Formal and informal environmental education interventions involving sustainably built products and/or environments;
- Case studies of educative green infrastructure projects;
- Social research with occupants of green infrastructure projects;
- Green infrastructure is designed to increase environmental awareness, knowledge, attitudes, or behaviours;
- Education for Sustainable Development.
We look forward to your contributions.
Dr. Laura B. Cole
Dr. Laura Zangori
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- green infrastructure
- green buildings
- sustainable development
- environmental education
- education for sustainability
- science education
- socio–ecological systems
- systems thinking
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