The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Education and Thinking for the 21st Century

John Elkington, co-founder of Environmental Data Services (ENDS), SustainAbility and Volans, Author: ?Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism.? (2020)

"A comprehensive international guide to the big issues facing humankind and what educators can do. A vitally important and timely book for teachers at all levels. Highly recommended."

David W. Orr, Professor of Practice, Arizona State University and Editor: ?Democracy in a Hotter Time?. (2023)

?The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Education and Thinking for the 21st Century takes on big topics like climate change, mass extinctions, food production, forests, population, energy, and waste, while speaking the language of higher education: faculty support and training, leadership, governance, pedagogies, competencies. May this Handbook be the positive tipping point that transforms colleges and universities everywhere into the Noble endeavours we urgently need them to be?.

Krista Hiser, Ph.D. Professor & Senior Lead and Advisor for Sustainability Education; Global Council for Science and the Environment, Washington D.C.

?The current development trajectory is not sustainable. It is no exaggeration to say that our civilisation can only survive if we are educated about the principles of sustainable futures. This Handbook gives educators the tools and examples to fulfill their responsibility to future generations, helping us all to live sustainably?.

Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe, Author: Australia on the brink: Avoiding Environmental Ruin (2023) 

?Progress toward sustainable development will require the reconceptualization and reorganization of our colleges and universities. Toward an essential transformation of sustainability education, this timely volume provides invaluable insights and practical guidance. The need to link knowledge with action is self-evident, and toward this end, the contributors provide a wide-ranging overview of the prospects for academic culture to contribute to shaping more sustainable futures. ?

Michael M. Crow, President, Arizona State University. 

?As a resource for those seeking to foster a culture of humility, and an ethic of restraint and creativity to match our fraught moment in history, this Handbook may prove invaluable.?

Tim Winton, OA, Australian Author  

?Sustainability education has come of age - precisely when our troubled age makes sustainability education imperative. The urgency of our times requires agency ? to ensure decisively that globally and locally we make and take a pathway of safety and wellbeing, rather than descend into the chaotic scenario that is currently in prospect. 

The difference between these futures pivots on deep and widespread individual and societal learning. This is where higher education must now aspire to a higher purpose, something this timely and comprehensive book calls ?noble education?.  

This invaluable collection of essays and exemplars is here to make a difference: to challenge, inspire and motivate the flourishing of education for the regenerative transformation that expert opinion underscores - and that the public senses is necessary to build a positive future. ? 

Stephen Sterling, Emeritus Professor of Sustainability Education, University of Plymouth, Author: ?Learning and sustainability in dangerous times? (2023)

?Education is the single most important investment that any society makes?and this timely collection of essays underscores the fact that sustainability education must now be our