FYI.
Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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Date sent: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:21:47 +0100
From: "Prof. Walter Leal Filho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NEW BOOK: Environmental Careers,
Environmental Employment and Environmental Training
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NEW BOOK: Environmental Careers, Environmental Employment and
Environmental Training
Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Hamburg
Published by Peter Lang Scientific Publishers (Frankfurt/M., Berlin,
Bern, Brussels, New York,
Oxford,Vienna)
October 2001. 200 pp., num. fig. and tables
Prices: 48.00 SFR 59.00 DM 400.00 �S 31.95 US$ 20.00 �
The book, which is volume 9 of the award-winning series �Environmental
Education, Environmental Communication and Sustainability�, presents an
overview of
experiences, projects and approaches related to employment in the
environment sector
and of trends related to sustainability. It is a further contribution
to the current debate
on capacity-building in the context of the �Rio+10� process and
documents a variety of experiences on
environmental training in the Czech Republic, Germany, Finland, Ireland,
Sweden, Switzerland, the
United Kingdom and the United States. The book also contains hard data
and statistics on
environmental jobs, useful to those involved with curriculum
development, curriculum planning and
other aspects related to environmental training.
Some items tackled in the book are: Experiences of Women Engineers in
Ireland -- Fostering Employment in the Environment Sector in Europe-
Continuing Education in
the Environmental Sciences �Environmental Education at Universities of
Applied Sciences -
Professionalization and Professional Activities in the Swiss Market for
Environmental
Services -The Environmental Protection Industry and Environmental Jobs
in the U.S.A.
Orders can be made on-oline at the publisher�s web site at:
http://www.peterlang.de by entering the book�s title. For any questions
concerning ordering,
please contact their webmaster: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer
Environmental Management & Design Division
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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