Practicing Students SDG Strategies Through Fieldwork: Exploring Student Perspectives on Green Urban Planning Models in a Nature Park

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Abstract

A growing number of students demand knowledge on more sustainable practices and climate change actions from their education. This chapter argues that although Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be hard to implement and put into practice, geographical fieldwork methods are well suited to the study of planning implementation efforts. The chapter is based on a case study of students’ perceptions of a former wetland in a Danish nature park. The study finds environmental blindness among students’ SDG strategies, not least when it comes to understanding the multi-scalar character of the SDGs and their assessment of the (dis)proportionality between different planning proposals, landowners’ and citizens’ natural-cultural representation of the area, and potential effects for more sustainable land transformation.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUnderstanding Sustainability with Pedagogical Practice : A Contribution from Geography Education
EditorsOsvaldo Muñiz Solari , Gabriele Schrüfer
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2023
Pages169-181
Chapter14
ISBN (Print)978-981-99-2686-2, 978-981-99-2689-3
ISBN (Electronic)978-981-99-2687-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
SeriesAdvances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
ISSN2198-3542

Keywords

  • social nature
  • human-environment interface
  • Planning
  • rural development
  • Nature parks

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