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Dr Ron Johnston
PhD Biogeography & Landscape Ecology of upland heather moorland and industrially derelict land.
BSc Ecology / Environmental Biology
Fellow Royal Geographical Society
Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy / Advance HE
Environmental Education
Education for Sustainable Development
Ecosystem and Landscape Studies
Current:
Sustainability Science Researcher [UNESCO MGIEP]
Landscape Ecologist: Independent Academic and Author
Legacy:
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science and Sustainability Education on undergraduate and post-graduate programmes with University of South Wales (2002 - 2016)
Sustainability science consultant with UNESCO MGIEP (2016-2018).
Site Road Map
Education for Sustainability (a more useful term than education for sustainable development) reaches beyond the anthropogenic impacts on 'natural environments' and should embrace a complex network of socio-scientific, socio-economic issues.
I develop this further in the "ESD" and the publications" sections of this site. The science chapter of the UNESCO publication: Textbooks for sustainable development- a Guide to Embedding (2016-2019 ), for which I was lead author, takes this into the realms of formal education (available on my publications tab above and elsewhere on this site).
Subsequently, I was part of the team developing the concepts underpinning this work and supporting their implementation in curriculum reform embedding ESD internationally - most notably in Sikkim in Himalayan India - where embedded ESD at all levels is applied as a major element of formal education for addressing sustainability issues.
My other (related) activities are in the field of ecosystem studies. These concentrate on upland heather moorland , industrially derelict landscapes and landscapes of conflict . Perhaps surprisingly, these ecosystems have many attributes in common.
I hope you enjoy my site !
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