Contents
Sustainability-Based Approach and Methods
Moving Towards Sustainable Agriculture Through Higher
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Jessica Zahra and Mark C. Mifsud
Balancing Sustainable Livelihoods and Conservation in the Marine
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Mark C. Mifsud
Linking Biodiversity and Human Health to Achieve Sustainability . . . . . 35
Deborah A. Gatt and Mark C. Mifsud
Understanding Scale in Wicked Problems of Sustainable
Development: Who Needs Dedicated Courses in Higher Education? . . . . 55
Sven Linow
Presenting an Interdisciplinary Teaching Approach to Involve
University Students in Issues of Sustainable Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Franziska Körner, Henning Strubelt, and Hartwig Haase
Methods of Transdisciplinary Collaboration Within Sustainable
Research and Development Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Andrea Heilmann and Hardy Pundt
Universities as ‘Global Citizens’: Reflections and Learning
from a Project on Female Leadership for Sustainable Development
of Fishing Communities in Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Valeria Ruiz Vargas, Alicia Prowse, and Lina Maria Barrios
Geography of Food Summer School: International Exchange
for Sustainable Food Value Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Isabel Jaisli, Roman Grüter, Bernadette Oehen, Marina Pintar,
and Umesh Kontrakere Basegowda
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