Sustainability, Systems Thinking and Professional Practice
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Sustainability, Systems Thinking and Professional Practice
This article explores the impact of the new sustainability agenda on the occupational and professional needs of those who have undergone educational and training programmes in the environmental field either at the undergraduate or the post-graduate level or through relevant professional institutions’ continuing professional development programmes. It also describes a one-day workshop for the pr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geography in Higher Education
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0309-8265,1466-1845
DOI: 10.1080/03098260500030389