Teaching and Learning from Environmental Summits: COP 21 and Beyond
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Selin, Noelle E
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High-profile environmental summits like the recent Paris climate conference (COP 21) offer an opportunity to incorporate real-world, timely issues into teaching and learning about global environmental governance. Using COP 21 as an example, this Forum article summarizes the ways that contemporary environmental summits can be incorporated into university-level education, providing content and context to help address the challenges of interdisciplinary sustainability education. Faculty members have incorporated COP-21-related content in ways ranging from traditional lectures and discussions to field trips, which have contributed to a broad range of course content and learning goals. However, the challenges of including environmental summits in educational settings include knowledge-based, normative, and structural barriers. While environmental summits can be an effective way to incorporate knowledge of global environmental governance into interdisciplinary education, more resources, experimentation, and extensions beyond climate change are needed.
Date issued
2016-08Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of EngineeringJournal
Global Environmental Politics
Publisher
MIT Press
Citation
Selin, Noelle E. “Teaching and Learning from Environmental Summits: COP 21 and Beyond.” Global Environmental Politics 16, no. 3 (August 2016): 31–40. © 2016 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Version: Final published version
ISSN
1526-3800
1536-0091