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Call for papers extended: How Can Education Contribute to Sustainable Mountain Development? Past, Present, and Future Perspectives

Mountain Research and Development is looking for contributions that address the title question by presenting systematically validated experiences, integrated analyses, and well-referenced reflections and suggestions regarding thematic issues, pedagogic concepts and methods, formal and informal practices, institutional setups, and policy frameworks. Full papers are due by 30 April 2020.

Mountain Research and Development

Opening new pathways towards sustainable development requires fostering transformational change from local levels to the global level, and this can only be done if mindsets and behavior start changing (Sterling et al 2018). One way of fostering such change is through education for sustainable development. Submission deadline: 30 April 2020. More

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