Environmental Leadership Capacity Building in Higher Education : Experience and Lessons from Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders / edited by Takashi Mino, Keisuke Hanaki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Takashi Mino, Keisuke Hanaki

Contributor:

Mino, Takashi., Editor.

Hanaki, Keisuke, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental management.

Environmental sciences.

Science--Study and teaching.

Science.

Business ethics.

Environmental Management.

Environmental Science and Engineering.

Science Education.

Business Ethics.

Local Subjects:

Environmental Management.

Environmental Science and Engineering.

Science Education.

Business Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 140 pages) : 34 illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour.

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Graduate Program in Sustainability Science under the Department of Urban Engineering of The University of Tokyo has been running an environmental leadership education program at the graduate student level since 2007 called the Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders (APIEL). This book describes the University’s experiences in establishing and organizing that program and provides some lessons learned for those who are considering starting environmental leadership education programs. APIEL’s curriculum includes the classroom topic “Environmental Challenges and Leadership in Asia.” As well, the APIEL program has field units to provide experience in problem solving, decision making, and participation, taking into consideration ecological, political, economic, social, aesthetic, and ethical aspects. Another characteristic feature of the program is that it promotes changes in attitudes and behavior that will help to solve existing environmental problems and to avoid a generation of new ones. Over the four years of study, efforts have been made to bond leadership with field-oriented exercises such as: 1) The Intensive Program on Sustainability; 2) an integral approach focused on sustainable integrated watershed management of arid regions; 3) sustainable development of programs in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand for qualifying students with problem-solving processes to combat issues such as flooding, lack of proper urban environmental infrastructure, and health risks; and 4) the Greater Pearl River Delta program with multicultural diversity to bring about sustainable urban development for a green city. All of those are described in the book. Last but not least, APIEL’s resonance throughout international networks and alumni are introduced.

Contents:

Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders

Concepts of EL

How to teach EL in a class room - Environmental Challenges and Leadership in Asia

APIEL resonance

Leadership Education tackling Water Environmental Issues in Arid Regions

IPoS: Intensive Program on Sustainability

Cambodia Considering their sustainable future

BKK: Sustainable solid waste management in Asian developing countries

Sustainable urban development toward Green City of the Greater Pearl River Delta, China.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

4-431-54340-6

OCLC:

836717420

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access