The Climate Change Playbook - 22 Systems Thinking Games That Teach Us How to Seek Solutions and

Advocates and teachers often find it difficult to communicate the complexities of climate change, because the people they are trying to reach hold so many mistaken assumptions. They assume, for example, that when climate change becomes an obvious threat to our everyday lives, there will still be time enough to make changes that will avoid disaster. Yet at that point it will be too late. Or they assume we can use our current paradigms and policy tools to find solutions. Yet the approaches that caused damage in the first place will cause even more damage in the future. Even the increasingly dire warnings from scientists haven’t shaken such assumptions. Is there another way to reach people? The simple, interactive exercises in Designed by leading thinkers in systems, communications, and sustainability, the games focus on learning by doing.

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• Authors: Linda Booth Sweeney, Linda Booth-Sweeney, Gillian Martin-Mehers, Dennis Meadows, Gil Mehers, Gillian Martin Mehers, Linda Booth Sweeney, Linda Booth/ Mehers Sweeney
• Publisher: CHELSEA GREEN PUBLISHING HOUSE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781603586764
• ISBN: 978-1-60358-676-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Klimawandel, Treibhauseffekt, Didaktik, Didaktische Kompetenz und Lehrmethoden, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Schule und Lernen: Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften, Technik allgemein, Unterricht / Didaktik, EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Science & Technology, Klimawandel - Treibhauseffekt