The purpose of this article is to describe a joint effort between three European and six Latin American universities to create an international Master’s degree program on Sustainable Development and Management. Faculty members from these institutions are working together on this unusual and...

From a perspective of educational research, the growing wealth of materials and initiatives in the field of sustainable consumer education is entirely welcome. However, this is contrasted by a lack of empirical evidence regarding the extent and quality of consumer education in schools and how...

Trotz aller Anstrengungen ist der bisherige Stand der Umweltbildung unbefriedigend. Internationale (z. B. UNCED 1992) und nationale Anstöße (z.B. Umweltgutachten 1994 des Sachverständigenrats für Umweltfragen) gebieten, Grundlagen und Ergebnisse bisheriger Maßnahmen zu überprüfen....

Transition to sustainability is a search for ways to improve the social capacity to guide interactions between nature and society toward a more sustainable future and thus a process of social learning in its broadest sense. Accordingly it is not only learning that is at issue but education and...