The book, which is volume 9 of the award‐winning series “Environmental Education, Environmental Communication and Sustainability”, presents an overview of experiences, projects and approaches related to employment in the environment sector and of trends related to sustainability. It is a further contribution to the current debate on capacity‐building in the context of the “Rio+10” process and documents a variety of experiences on environmental training in the Czech Republic, Germany, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The book also contains hard data and statistics on environmental jobs, useful to those involved with curriculum development, curriculum planning and other aspects related to environmental training.
Some items tackled in the book are:
experiences of women engineers in Ireland;
fostering employment in the environment sector in Europe;
continuing education in the environmental sciences;
environmental education at universities of applied sciences;
professionalization and professional activities in the Swiss market for environmental services;
the environmental protection industry and environmental jobs in the USA.
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