Teaching and Learning from Environmental Summits: COP 21 and Beyond
High-profile environmental summits like the recent Paris climate conference (COP 21) offer an opportunity to incorporate real-world, timely issues into teaching and learning about global environmental governance. Using COP 21 as an example, this Forum article summarizes the ways that contemporary en...
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| author | Selin, Noelle E |
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| description | High-profile environmental summits like the recent Paris climate conference (COP 21) offer an opportunity to incorporate real-world, timely issues into teaching and learning about global environmental governance. Using COP 21 as an example, this Forum article summarizes the ways that contemporary environmental summits can be incorporated into university-level education, providing content and context to help address the challenges of interdisciplinary sustainability education. Faculty members have incorporated COP-21-related content in ways ranging from traditional lectures and discussions to field trips, which have contributed to a broad range of course content and learning goals. However, the challenges of including environmental summits in educational settings include knowledge-based, normative, and structural barriers. While environmental summits can be an effective way to incorporate knowledge of global environmental governance into interdisciplinary education, more resources, experimentation, and extensions beyond climate change are needed. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1142782022-09-29T12:51:43Z Teaching and Learning from Environmental Summits: COP 21 and Beyond Selin, Noelle E Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Engineering Selin, Noelle E High-profile environmental summits like the recent Paris climate conference (COP 21) offer an opportunity to incorporate real-world, timely issues into teaching and learning about global environmental governance. Using COP 21 as an example, this Forum article summarizes the ways that contemporary environmental summits can be incorporated into university-level education, providing content and context to help address the challenges of interdisciplinary sustainability education. Faculty members have incorporated COP-21-related content in ways ranging from traditional lectures and discussions to field trips, which have contributed to a broad range of course content and learning goals. However, the challenges of including environmental summits in educational settings include knowledge-based, normative, and structural barriers. While environmental summits can be an effective way to incorporate knowledge of global environmental governance into interdisciplinary education, more resources, experimentation, and extensions beyond climate change are needed. National Science Foundation (U.S.). Atmospheric Chemistry Program (Grant #1053648) 2018-03-23T21:20:26Z 2018-03-23T21:20:26Z 2016-08 2018-02-23T14:32:07Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1526-3800 1536-0091 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114278 Selin, Noelle E. “Teaching and Learning from Environmental Summits: COP 21 and Beyond.” Global Environmental Politics 16, no. 3 (August 2016): 31–40. © 2016 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6396-5622 http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/GLEP_A_00364 Global Environmental Politics Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf MIT Press Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press |
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