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Realising Sustainability Leadership

The Role of Green Non-Government Organisations in Outdoor Environmental Education in Hong Kong

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In the last few decades, the Asia Pacific region has faced unprecedented social, economic, political and environmental challenges. These in turn have prompted the necessity for partnerships on order to realise sustainable development in the region.

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  1. Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong

    Eric Po Keung Tsang

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  1. La Trobe University, Australia

    Margaret Robertson

  2. La Trobe University, Australia

    Ruth Lawrence

  3. La Trobe University, Australia

    Gregory Heath

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Tsang, E.P.K. (2015). Realising Sustainability Leadership. In: Robertson, M., Lawrence, R., Heath, G. (eds) Experiencing the Outdoors. Researching Environmental Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-944-9_18

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