Making The Case For Biodiversity
Item
Title of Resource
Making The Case For Biodiversity
Identifier
FP_0045
Main Topic
Biodiversity and Ecosystem impacts
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TypeofFocus
General focus (e.g., if the resource covers several topics)
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Format
Book or booklet
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License
Date Created
2014
Audience Education Level
College or university lecturers
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Students (college/university)
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Resource URL
Publisher URL
Type
text
countryOfOrigin
South Africa
Publication Continent
Africa
Science Approaches
Sustainability
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Social learning
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Learning Approaches
Inquiry-based learning (active learning that starts by posing questions, problems or scenarios)
Includes References
No
Suggested Usefulness
Very useful
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Indigenous Voice
Yes. Local context
Women and Children Agency
No. Case study follow an approach (COP 17) selected as a moment in which all South Africans would be thinking about environmental issues.
Social Inclusion
No
Entrepreneurial Opportunities
Yes. Suggest that government officials and the general public not familiar with the concept of biodiversity need to be taken on a journey to locate people
within their surrounding ecosystems to allow them to better understand the value and importance of these ecosystems to socio-economic sustainability; and from there, to reach a greater understanding of the importance of individual
species to maintaining healthy, intact ecosystems - thereby supporting socio-economic sustainability.
within their surrounding ecosystems to allow them to better understand the value and importance of these ecosystems to socio-economic sustainability; and from there, to reach a greater understanding of the importance of individual
species to maintaining healthy, intact ecosystems - thereby supporting socio-economic sustainability.
Sustainable Development Goal
All (very broad)
Abstract
Universal responsibility - (sense of global responsibility)
Earth love - (respect Earth and life in all its diversity)
