Environmental leadership capacity building in higher education : experience and lessons from Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders /

Environmental leadership capacity building in higher education : experience and lessons from Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders /

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Imprint:Tokyo ; New York : Springer, ©2013.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Environmental sciences -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Leadership -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Environmental sciences -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Leadership -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12326950
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Other authors / contributors:Mino, Takashi, 1954-
Hanaki, Keisuke.
ISBN:9784431543404
4431543406
9784431543398
Digital file characteristics:text file
PDF
Notes:Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Summary:The Graduate Program in Sustainability Science under the Department of Urban Engineering of The University of Tokyo has been running an environmental leadership education program at the graduate student level since 2007 called the Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders (APIEL). This book describes the University's experiences in establishing and organizing that program and provides some lessons learned for those who are considering starting environmental leadership education programs. APIEL's curriculum includes the classroom topic "Environmental Challenges and Leadership in Asia." As well, the APIEL program has field units to provide experience in problem solving, decision making, and participation, taking into consideration ecological, political, economic, social, aesthetic, and ethical aspects. Another characteristic feature of the program is that it promotes changes in attitudes and behavior that will help to solve existing environmental problems and to avoid a generation of new ones. Over the four years of study, efforts have been made to bond leadership with field-oriented exercises such as: 1) The Intensive Program on Sustainability; 2) an integral approach focused on sustainable integrated watershed management of arid regions; 3) sustainable development of programs in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand for qualifying students with problem-solving processes to combat issues such as flooding, lack of proper urban environmental infrastructure, and health risks; and 4) the Greater Pearl River Delta program with multicultural diversity to bring about sustainable urban development for a green city. All of those are described in the book. Last but not least, APIEL's resonance throughout international networks and alumni are introduced
Other form:Printed edition: 9784431543398
Standard no.:10.1007/978-4-431-54340-4.
Table of Contents:
  • Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders / Tomohiro Akiyama, Keisuke Hanaki
  • The Concept of Environmental Leader / Tomohiro Akiyama, Kyoungjin J. An
  • APIEL Compulsory Course: Environmental Challenges and Leadership in Asia / Motoharu Onuki, Kyoungjin J. An
  • Leadership Development for Sustainable Urban Environmental Management: Cases in Thailand / Tomomi Hoshiko, Tomohiro Akiyama
  • Environmental Leadership Education for Tackling Water Environmental Issues in Arid Regions / Tomohiro Akiyama, Jia Li
  • Environmental Leadership Development Based on Activity Theory for Sustainable Urban Development in the Greater Pearl River Delta, China / Kyoungjin J. An
  • Environmental Leadership Development: A Cambodian Case / Hironori Hamasaki, Hiroyuki Katayama
  • Resonance in the Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders / Neth Baromey, John Stuart Blakeney.

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