Environmental Institutional Awareness in the Context of Sustainable Development

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will address the actions and attitudes of institutions towards environmental education in the framework of sustainable development. Raising awareness in environmental education is important to sensitize institutions and companies in distinct aspects related to a sustainable environment. Papers in this Special Issue should address measures that contribute to the best methodological practices in the context of mitigating environmental impacts within the scope of institutions as a whole, considering the role they play in society. Selected papers may comprise a wide range of aspects related to environmental sustainability, including instruments and tools within institutions and companies, used to raise environmental awareness and combat fragilities in local contexts of environmental information. Papers related to the multiple benefits of ecosystem services in urban contexts are also welcome. Papers addressing the use of institutional environmental instruments in the scope of sustainable knowledge management are particularly welcome. The methodology used by institutions to raise environmental awareness should be detailed. Papers selected may also address the institutional assessment of environmental sustainability, considering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). All relevant measures contributing to overall environmental knowledge within institutions and companies are also welcome.

References:

Clegg, T., Boston, C., Preece, J., Warrick, E., Pauw, D. & Cameron, J. (2019). Community-driven informal adult environmental learning: Using theory as a lens to identify steps toward conscientization. The Journal of Environment Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2019.1629380

Hill, A. (2012). Developing approaches to outdoor education that promote sustainability education. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education. 16: 15. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03400935

Ioan, C. C., & Carcea, M. I. (2013). Awareness and environmental attitude in the context sustainable development within a knowledge-based society. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal 12: 8. https://doi.org/10.30638/eemj.2013.197

Johns, R.A. & Pontes, R. (2019). Parks, rhetoric and environmental education: challenges and opportunities for enhancing ecoliteracy. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education. 22: 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42322-019-0029-x

North, C. & Jansen, C. (2013). Holding a sustainability bearing through cutty-grass and clearings: Implementing sustainability during disruptive organisational changes. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education. 16: 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03400941

Schank, C. & Rieckmann, M. (2019). Socio-economically Substantiated Education for Sustainable Development: Development of Competencies and Value Orientations Between Individual Responsibility and Structural Transformation. Journal of Education for Sustainable Development 13 (1) 67-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/0973408219844849

Schnitzler. T. (2019). The Bridge Between Education for Sustainable Development and Transformative Learning: Towards New Collaborative Learning Spaces. Journal of Education for Sustainable Development 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/0973408219873827

Prof. Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
Prof. Cláudia Oliveira Fernandes
Guest Editors

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