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INTRODUCTION
Arran Stibbe, Humanities Department and Centre for Active Learning, University of
Gloucestershire
Heather Luna, Higher Education Academy Education for Sustainable Development Project
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It has long been recognised that the...
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INTRODUCTION
Arran Stibbe, Humanities Department and Centre for Active Learning, University of
Gloucestershire
Heather Luna, Higher Education Academy Education for Sustainable Development Project
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It has long been recognised that the social and physical worlds we inhabit are in a state of rapid
change, and within the turmoil, the only place that we can find continuity is in the certainty of
change itself.
The twentieth century saw astounding changes in population, in technology, in
urbanisation, in industrialisation, in globalisation – facilitated mainly by the availability of cheap
and abundant fossil fuels, and the commercial drive to produce and consume more food and more
material goods.
Over the course of the twentieth century, world population increased 3.
5 times to
reach six billion; the number of cars in the UK rose from 8000 to 21 million; and in 1999 more
people were living in cities than the entire world population of 1950.
The premise of this book i
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