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Stephen Sterling

Dr. Stephen Sterling is Emeritus Professor of Sustainability Education at the Sustainable Earth Institute (SEI), University of Plymouth, UK. A Senior Fellow of IAU, a former Senior Advisor to the UK Higher Education Academy on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and a National Teaching Fellow (NTF), he has worked in environmental and sustainability education in the academic and NGO fields nationally and internationally for some four decades, including as a consultant and advisor on UNESCO’S Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) programmes. Widely published, he was co-chair of the UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD International Jury 2015-19, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the Schumacher Institute. At Plymouth University, he led whole institutional change towards sustainability. Prof. Sterling just published a collection of his works in the book ‘Learning and Sustainability in Dangerous Times’ .

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