A comparative history of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain [[electronic resource] /] / the Social Learning Group

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454883303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2001
• ISBN: 0-262-30867-3; 1-282-10032-7; 9786612100321; 0-262-28401-4; 0-585-38762-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (403 p.)
• Collana: Politics, science, and the environment; Learning to manage global environmental risks ; ; v. 1
• Disciplina: 363.7/05
• Soggetti: Environmental policy; Environmental management; Global environmental change; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: v. 1. A comparative history of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain -- v. 2. A functional analysis of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain.; 1. Overview -- 2. Studies of arenas.
• Sommario/riassunto: This long-awaited two-volume book examines how the interplay of ideas and actions applied to environmental problems has laid the foundations for global environmental management. It looks at how ideas, interests, and institutions affect management practice; how management capabilities in other areas affect the ability to deal with specific environmental issues; and how learning affects society's approach to the global environment.The book focuses on efforts to deal with climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain from 1957 (The International Geophysical Year) through 1992 (the UN Conference ; on Environment and Development). The settings include Canada, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, the former Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and international environmental organizations. Topics include problem framing, agenda setting, issue attention, risk assessment, monitoring, option assessment, goal and strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. Volume 1 provides an overview of the project, of global environmental management in general, and of the three central environmental issues studied; it also contains the individual country studies. Volume 2 contains the management function studies and the book's conclusion.Authors in the set includeJeannine Cavender-Bares, William C. Clark, Ellis Cowling, Nancy M. Dickson, Gerda Dinkelman, Rodney Dobell, Renate Ell, Adam Fenech, Alexander Ginzburg, Elena Goncharova, Peter Haas, Eva Hizsnyik, Michael Huber, Peter Hughes, Jill Jager, Marc Levy, Angela Liberatore, Diana Liverman, Justin Longo, David McCabe, Donald Munton, Elena Nikitina, Karen O'Brien, Edward Parson, Vladimir Pisarev, Ruud Pleune, Miranda Schreurs, Simon Shackley, Peter Simmons, Heather Smith, Vassily Sokolov, Ferenc L. Toth, Jeroen van der Sluijs, Josee van Eijndhoven, Claire Waterton, Cor Worrell, and Brian Wynne.More information is available from the SLG web site.

Extending Educational Reform : From One School to Many / / Amanda Datnow, Lea Hubbard, Hugh Mehan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910476801903321
• Autore: Datnow Amanda
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (187 pages)
• Disciplina: 301.56
• Soggetti: Educational innovations - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- Extending Educational Reform -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword by Michael Fullan -- Acknowledgments -- Frequently Used Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How Does Reform Adoption Happen? The Role of Power, Politics, and Perspective -- 3. Is All Change Local? How Context Shapes Implementation -- 4. Change Agents in the School Reform Process -- 5. Building the Plane While It's Flying: The Evolving Design Team -- 6. The Life of External Reform Models: Sustainability and Expiration -- 7. Prospects for Educational Change -- Appendix: Description of Reform Designs -- Notes -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of US schools have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and other organizations. Such models have been successful in improving individual schools or groups of schools, but what happens when educational reform attempts to extend from one school to many? Through qualitative data from several studies, this book explores what happens when school reform 'goes to scale'. Topics covered include: *why and how schools are adopting reforms *the influence of the local context and wider constraints on the implementation of reform *teachers and principals as change agents in schools *the evolution of reform design teams *the implementation, sustainability and expiration of reform, and its impact on educational change Each chapter concludes with guidelines for policy and practice. This book will be of interest to educational leaders and staff developers, educational ; researchers and policy makers, in the US and internationally.