Learning Environment and Sustainable Development A History of Ideas | Business

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This book is an introduction to the long history of human learning the environment and sustainable development – about our struggles with the natural world: first for survival then for dominance currently for self-preservation and in future perhaps even for long-term mutually beneficial co-existence. It charts the long arc of human–environment relationships through the specific lens of human learning putting on record many of the people ideas and events that have contributed often unwittingly to the global movement for sustainable development. Human learning has always had a focus on the environment. It’s something we’ve been engaged in ever since we began interacting with our surroundings …