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Beyond fortress mentality : envisioning water and waste management facilites as a catalyst for place-based sustainability education in Metro Vancouver Ford, Bruce Gordon

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This paper provides rationale and strategies for Metro Vancouver to develop and implement tours of water, wastewater and waste management facilities as part of its ongoing efforts to educate residents and advance sustainability. A review of place-based education, environmental education and learning in informal environments literature will reveal that community-embedded facility tours contribute to effective teaching and learning about sustainability. An overview of existing Metro Vancouver facility tours and education programs and established facility tour programs offered by the cities of Perth, Australia, Christchurch, New Zealand and Edmonton, Canada, illustrate numerous opportunities to enhance and improve facility tour education programs at Metro Vancouver. Recommendations and strategies for Metro Vancouver to advance sustainability by utilizing facilities as places for learning as part of a broader sustainability education strategy will be provided. Many of these recommendations are relevant to other cities interested in engaging residents through meaningful place-based sustainability education programs in their communities.

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Beyond fortress mentality : envisioning water and waste management facilites as a catalyst for place-based sustainability education in Metro Vancouver
Creator
Ford, Bruce Gordon
Date Issued
2008-08
Description
This paper provides rationale and strategies for Metro Vancouver to develop and implement tours of water, wastewater and waste management facilities as part of its ongoing efforts to educate residents and advance sustainability. A review of place-based education, environmental education and learning in informal environments literature will reveal that community-embedded facility tours contribute to effective teaching and learning about sustainability. An overview of existing Metro Vancouver facility tours and education programs and established facility tour programs offered by the cities of Perth, Australia, Christchurch, New Zealand and Edmonton, Canada, illustrate numerous opportunities to enhance and improve facility tour education programs at Metro Vancouver. Recommendations and strategies for Metro Vancouver to advance sustainability by utilizing facilities as places for learning as part of a broader sustainability education strategy will be provided. Many of these recommendations are relevant to other cities interested in engaging residents through meaningful place-based sustainability education programs in their communities.
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Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. EDCP 590
Date Available
2014-02-21
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0054651
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46060
Affiliation
Education, Faculty of; Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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