Higher education in urban environmental management
A new programme at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19500488 |
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| Authors | René Parenteau (Asian Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-47 |
| Publication date | 1994-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-4509 • E-ISSN: 1745-2627 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13504509409469859 |
| OpenAlex | W2131130557 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Environmental management and planning is now considered as a new field of professional expertise. There are even professional associations for interested professionals. To date, urban environmental management has been regarded as a subdiscipline of environmental management, but since the Rio Conference in 1992, with the new focus of urban management on environmental problems, it can itself be considered as a professional field. This paper traces the emergence of the field and tries to identify the new skills required for it. The question of formal training, in higher education, for a new type of professional is raised and discussed. It refers at length to an initiative taken by the Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok) to propose and offer a new graduate programme in this discipline, and draws on the author's experience of an Asian workshop (Bangkok, May 1993) aimed at defining the need for such a new profession in Asia
Engineering ethics · Environmental planning · Environmental studies · Geography · Pedagogy · Political science · Professional development · Public relations · Sociology · Engineering · Public-Private Partnership Projects · Urban Planning and Governance
| Highly cited | No |
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