Education as a tool for addressing the extinction crisis: Moving students from understanding to action

Education as a tool for addressing the extinction crisis: Moving students from understanding to action

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Human activity is leading to mass species extinctions worldwide. Conservation biology (CB) courses, taught worldwide at universities, typically focus on the proximal causes of extinction without teaching students how to respond to this crisis. The Extinction of Species 360 course has been taught yea...

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Main Authors:	Lucas Moyer-Horner, Rebecca Kirby, Christopher Vaughan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Vicerractoría Investigación 2010-12-01
Series:	Revista de Biología Tropical
Subjects:	acción biología de la conservación consumo educación ambiental extinción action conservation biology consumption environmental education extinction
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442010000400005

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