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By Hans Chr. Garmann Johnsen,Stina Torjesen,Richard Ennals

This ebook addresses the subsequent query: what's a sustainable society, and the way can greater schooling support us to increase towards it? The middle argument recommend is that the idea that of sustainability reaches a lot farther than simply the direct facets of environmental threats and carbon emissions. utilizing greater schooling as some degree of departure, the e-book indicates that sustainability includes a wide variety of disciplines, from nursing and meals to know-how and administration. It argues sustainable society includes a special viewpoint on society that impacts our social considering when it comes to ethics, democracy and data improvement. The publication additionally discusses if (and if this is the case, how) larger schooling can and will give a contribution to the sort of improvement in line with the rules of the liberty of technology in a liberal, democratic society. The ebook offers Mutual Competence development as an idea larger schooling can adapt so that it will give a contribution to a sustainable Society.

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