Bob Stevenson
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Biography
Professor Bob Stevenson joined The Cairns Institute in 2010 as a Tropical Research Leader (Education for Environmental Sustainability) until his retirement in December, 2016. His prior 20-year academic career was based in the USA at the University at Buffalo, New York, including terms as Head/Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy and Co-Director of the Graduate School of Education’s Collaborative Research Network. He began his career as a high school teacher in Sydney before becoming a K-12 curriculum and professional development specialist in environmental education in Education Queensland.
Bob was founding Director of the Centre for Research and Innovation in Sustainability Education at JCU. He was lead editor of Engaging Environmental Education: Learning, Culture and Agency (Sense, 2011) and the International Handbook of Research in Environmental Education (AERA/Routledge, 2013) and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental Education (the oldest journal in the field) from 2014-2018, after being an Executive Editor from 2008-2013 and now continuing his involvement as an editorial board member. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education, Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, and Environmental Education Research.
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Evans, Neus Snowy; Stevenson, Robert B. (2022) Programmatic approaches to environmental and sustainability education in teacher education. Singapore: [Reference Material] [DOI]
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Ferreira, Jo-Anne; Evans, Neus (Snowy); Davis, Julie; Stevenson, Robert (Bob) (2019) Learning to Embed Sustainability in Teacher Education. Singapore: [Edited Publication] [DOI]
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Stevenson, Robert; Davis, Julie; Ferreira, Jo-Anne; Evans, Neus (Snowy) (2014) A state-wide systems approach to embedding the learning and teaching of sustainability in teacher education. Sydney, NSW Australia:
Stevenson, Robert; Ferreira, Jo-Anne; Davis, Julie; Evans, Neus (Snowy) (2014) Case Studies: embedding sustainability in teacher education. Sydney, NSW Australia: [Report]
Stevenson, Robert (Bob); Davis, Julie; Ferreira, Jo-Anne; Evans, Neus (Snowy) (2014) Embedding EfS in Teacher Education: an introductory guide to using the Systems Change Model. Sydney, NSW Australia: [Report]
Dale, Allan; Vella, Karen; Potts, Ruth; Voyce, Bronwyn; Stevenson, Bob; Cottrell, Alison; King, David; Babacan, Hurriyet; Boon, Helen; Gooch, Margaret; Pert, Petina (2014) Applying Social Resilience Concepts and Indicators to Support Climate Adaptation in Tropical North Queensland, Australia: benchmark evidence base. Cairns: [Report]
Stevenson, Robert B.; Wals, Arjen E.J.; Dillon, Justin; Brody, Michael (2013) Introduction: an orientation to environmental education and the handbook. New York, NY, USA: [Non-Research Book Chapter]
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Stevenson, Robert B.; Brody, Michael; Dillon, Justin; Wals, Arjen E.J. (2013) International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education. New York, USA: [Edited Publication]
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Stevenson, Robert B.; Mwaniki, Fiona; Zachariou, Aravella (2012) Education, environmental. [Reference Material]
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Stelling, Anne; Millar, Joanne; Boon, Helen; Cottrell, Alison; King, David; Stevenson, Bob (2011) Recovery From Natural Disasters: community experiences with bushfires in North East Victoria from 2003 to 2009. Thurgoona, NSW: [Report]
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Stevenson, Robert B.; Dillon, Justin (2010) Introduction to issues in learning, culture and agency in environmental education. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: [Non-Research Book Chapter]
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Stevenson, Robert B.; Dillon, Justin (2010) Engaging Environmental Education: Learning, Culture and Agency. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: [Edited Publication]
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Stevenson, Robert B. (2022) 'Climate movements, learning and the politics of climate action in Australia'. Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 62 (3):424-443.
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Evans, Neus (Snowy); Stevenson, Robert B.; Lasen, Michelle; Ferreira, Jo-Anne; Davis, Julie (2017) 'Approaches to embedding sustainability in teacher education: a synthesis of the literature'. Teaching and Teacher Education, 63 (2017):405-417. [DOI]
Mwaniki, Fiona; Stevenson, Robert B. (2017) 'Farmers’ uses of indigenous knowledge and practices to cope with climate change in Kilifi County, Kenya'. International Journal of Climate Change: impacts and responses, 9 (4):53-65. [DOI]
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Stevenson, Robert B.; Nicholls, Jennifer; Whitehouse, Hilary (2017) 'What is climate change education?'. Curriculum Perspectives, 37 (1):67-71. [DOI]
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Acton, Renae; Salter, Peta; Lenoy, Maxwell; Stevenson, Robert (Bob) (2017) 'Conversations on cultural sustainability: stimuli for embedding Indigenous knowledges and ways of being into curriculum'. Higher Education Research & Development, 36 (7):1311-1325. [DOI]
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Smith, Gregory A.; Stevenson, Robert B. (2017) 'Sustaining education for sustainability in turbulent times'. Journal of Environmental Education, 48 (2):79-95. [DOI]
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Embedding EfS in teacher education through a multi-level systems approach: lessons from Queensland
2016
Evans, Neus (Snowy); Ferreira, Jo-Anne; Davis, Julie; Stevenson, Robert B. (2016) 'Embedding EfS in teacher education through a multi-level systems approach: lessons from Queensland'. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 32 (1):65-79. [DOI]
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Stevenson, Robert (Bob); Ferreira, Jo-Anne; Emery, Sherridan (2016) 'Environmental and sustainability education research, past and future: three perspectives from late, mid, and early career researchers'. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 32 (Special Issue 1):1-10. [DOI]
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Nicholls, Jennifer; Stevenson, Robert B. (2015) 'Queensland teachers' understandings of education for climate change'. eTropic, 14 (1):21-27.
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Kadji-Beltran, Chrysanthi ; Zachariou, Aravella; Stevenson, Robert B. (2013) 'Leading sustainable schools: exploring the role of primary school principals'. Environmental Education Research, 19 (3):303-323. [DOI]
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Boon, Helen J.; Cottrell, Alison; King, David; Stevenson, Robert B.; Millar, Joanne (2012) 'Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory for modelling community resilience to natural disasters'. Natural Hazards, 60 (2):381-408. [DOI]
Sense of place in Australian environmental education research: distinctive, missing or displaced?
2011
Stevenson, Robert B. (2011) 'Sense of place in Australian environmental education research: distinctive, missing or displaced?'. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 27 (1):46-55.
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Stevenson, Robert B.; Evans, Neus (2011) 'The distinctive characteristics of environmental education research in Australia: an historical and comparative analysis'. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 27 (1):24-45.
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Stevenson, Robert B. (2008) 'A critical pedagogy of place and the place(s) of critical pedagogy'. Environmental Education Research, 14 (3):353-360. [DOI]
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Stevenson, Robert B. (2007) 'Schooling and environmental/sustainability education: from discourses of policy and practice to discourses of professional learning'. Environmental Education Research, 13 (2):265-285. [DOI]
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Stevenson, Robert B. (2007) 'Schooling and environmental education: Contradictions in purpose and practice'. Environmental Education Research, 13 (2):139-153. [DOI]
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Tensions and transitions in policy discourse: re-contextualizing a de-contextualized EE/ESD debate
2006
Stevenson, Robert B. (2006) 'Tensions and transitions in policy discourse: re-contextualizing a de-contextualized EE/ESD debate'. Environmental Education Research, 12 (3):277-290. [DOI]
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Whitehouse, Hilary; Stevenson, Robert B. (2022) 'From the Guest Editors' desk Adult learning education on climate justice' Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 62 (3) :291-297.
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Hart, Paul; Stevenson, Bob (2019) 'Preamble [Journal of Environmental Education, 50 (4-6)]' Journal of Environmental Education, 50 (4-6) :239-240. [DOI]
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Introduction
2016
Dillon, Justin; Stevenson, Robert B.; Wals, Arjen E.J. (2016) 'Introduction' Conservation Biology, 30 (3) :450-455. [DOI]
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Wals, Arjen E.J.; Brody, Michael; Dillon, Justin; Stevenson, Robert B. (2014) 'Convergence between science and environmental education' Science, 344 (6184) :583-584. [DOI]
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Hart, Paul; Shultis, John; Stevenson, Robert B.; Whitehouse, Hilary (2014) 'Publishing models and article dates explained' Journal of Environmental Education, 45 (3) :139-142. [DOI]
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Editorial
2007
Stevenson, Robert B (2007) 'Editorial' Environmental Education Research, 13 (2) :129-138. [DOI]
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Boon, Helen; Clark, Brenton; Cottrell, Alison; Stevenson, Bob; Millar, Joanne; King, David (2012) Earth: fire and rain Lifestyle 'at risk'? The case of Ingham Brisbane, QLD, Australia,
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Recovery from disaster: a case study of individual and community resilience in the face of cyclones
2012
Stevenson, Bob; Boon, Helen; Clark, Brenton; Millar, Joanne; Cottrell, Alison; King, David (2012) Earth: fire and rain Recovery from disaster: a case study of individual and community resilience in the face of cyclones Brisbane, QLD, Australia,
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Millar, Joanne; Boon, Helen; Stevenson, Bob; Cottrell, Alison; King, David; Stelling, Anne; Rogers, Maureen (2012) Earth: fire and rain Individual and community resilience to natural disasters: a comparison of bushfire and drought events in Victoria Brisbane, QLD, Australia,
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Vella, Karen; Dale, Allan; Cottrell, Alison; Pert, Petina; Stevenson, Bob; Boon, Helen; King, David; Whitehouse, Hilary; Hill, Ro; Babacan, Hurriyet; Thomas, Melanie; Gooch, Margaret (2011) WPSC 2011 3rd World Planning Schools Congress Towards more effective adaptive planning: measuring and reporting social resilience in vulnerable coastal communities facing climate change in tropical Queensland Perth, WA, Australia,
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Adam, Raoul; Whitehouse, Hilary; Stevenson, Robert B.; Chigeza, Philemon (2019) 'The socioecological (un)learner: unlearning binary oppositions and the wicked problems of the Anthropocene' In: Adam, Raoul, Whitehouse, Hilary, Stevenson, Robert B., and Chigeza, Philemon (2019) The socioecological (un)learner: unlearning binary oppositions and the wicked problems of the Anthropocene. In: Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Amy, Lasczik, Alexandra, Wilks, Judith, Logan, Marianne, Turner, Angela, and Boyd, Wendy, (eds.) Touchstones for Deterritorializing Socioecological Learning: the Anthropocene, posthumanism and common worlds as creative milieux. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 49-74(Eds.). Touchstones for Deterritorializing Socioecological Learning: the Anthropocene, posthumanism and common worlds as creative milieux. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI]
Stevenson, Robert B.; Mannion, Greg; Evans, Neus (Snowy) (2018) 'Childhoodnature pedagogies and place: an overview and analysis' In: Stevenson, Robert B., Mannion, Greg, and Evans, Neus (Snowy) (2018) Childhoodnature pedagogies and place: an overview and analysis. In: Cutter-Mackenzie, Amy, Malone, Karen, and Barratt Hacking, Elisabeth, (eds.) Research handbook on childhoodnature: Assemblages of childhood and nature research. Springer International Handbooks of Education . Springer, Cham, Switzerland(Eds.). Research handbook on childhoodnature: Assemblages of childhood and nature research. Cham, Switzerland : Springer. [DOI]
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Stevenson, Robert B.; Smith, Gregory A. (2018) 'Environmental educators learning and theorizing place-responsive pedagogy' In: Stevenson, Robert B., and Smith, Gregory A. (2018) Environmental educators learning and theorizing place-responsive pedagogy. In: Renshaw, Peter, and Tooth, Ron, (eds.) Diverse Pedagogies of Place: educating students in and for local and global environments. Routledge Research in Education . Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 190-210(Eds.). Diverse Pedagogies of Place: educating students in and for local and global environments. Abingdon, UK : Routledge.
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Stevenson, Robert B.; Wals, Arjen E.J.; Heimlich, Joe E.; Field, Ellen (2017) 'Critical environmental education' In: Stevenson, Robert B., Wals, Arjen E.J., Heimlich, Joe E., and Field, Ellen (2017) Critical environmental education. In: Russ, Alex, and Krasny, Marianne E., (eds.) Urban Environmental Education. Cornell University Press, New York, NY, USA, pp. 51-58(Eds.). Urban Environmental Education. New York, NY, USA : Cornell University Press.
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Dale, Allan Patrick; Vella, Karen; Potts, Ruth; Voyce, Bronwyn; Stevenson, Bob; Cottrell, Alison; King, David; Babacan, Hurriyet; Boon, Helen; Gooch, Margaret; Pert, Petina (2016) 'Applying social resilience concepts and indicators to support climate adaptation in tropical North Queensland, Australia' In: Dale, Allan Patrick, Vella, Karen, Potts, Ruth, Voyce, Bronwyn, Stevenson, Bob, Cottrell, Alison, King, David, Babacan, Hurriyet, Boon, Helen, Gooch, Margaret, and Pert, Petina (2016) Applying social resilience concepts and indicators to support climate adaptation in tropical North Queensland, Australia. In: Knieling, Jörg, (ed.) Climate Adaptation Governance in Cities and Regions: theoretical fundamentals and practical evidence. Wiley, Chichester, UK, pp. 23-43(Eds.). Climate Adaptation Governance in Cities and Regions: theoretical fundamentals and practical evidence. Chichester, UK : Wiley. [DOI]
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Stevenson, Robert B.; Ferreira, Jo-Anne; Evans, Neus (Snowy); Davis, Julie (2015) 'Beyond science education: embedding sustainability in teacher education systems' In: Stevenson, Robert B., Ferreira, Jo-Anne, Evans, Neus (Snowy), and Davis, Julie (2015) Beyond science education: embedding sustainability in teacher education systems. In: Stratton, Susan K., Hagevik, Rita, Feldman, Allan, and Bloom, Mark, (eds.) Educating Science Teachers for Sustainability. ASTE Series in Science Education . Springer, Cham, pp. 381-398(Eds.). Educating Science Teachers for Sustainability. Cham : Springer. [DOI]
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Lasen, Michelle; Tomas, Louisa; Whitehouse, Hilary; Sorin, Reesa; Evans, Neus; Stevenson, Bob (2015) 'A case study of an Australian university embedding EfS in a pre-service teaching program' In: Lasen, Michelle, Tomas, Louisa, Whitehouse, Hilary, Sorin, Reesa, Evans, Neus, and Stevenson, Bob (2015) A case study of an Australian university embedding EfS in a pre-service teaching program. In: Stratton, Susan K., Hagevik, Rita, Feldman, Allan, and Bloom, Mark, (eds.) Educating Science Teachers for Sustainability. ASTE Series in Science Education . Springer Internationl Publishing Switzerland, Switzerland, pp. 323-346(Eds.). Educating Science Teachers for Sustainability. Switzerland : Springer Internationl Publishing Switzerland. [DOI]
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Wals, Arjen E.J.; Stevenson, Robert B.; Brody, Michael; Dillon, Justin (2013) 'Tentative directions for environmental education research in uncertain times' In: Wals, Arjen E.J., Stevenson, Robert B., Brody, Michael, and Dillon, Justin (2013) Tentative directions for environmental education research in uncertain times. In: Stevenson, Robert B, Brody, Michael, Dillon, Justin, and Wals, Arjen E.J. , (eds.) International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education. Routledge, New York, USA, pp. 542-547(Eds.). International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education. New York, USA : Routledge.
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Stevenson, Robert B.; Dillon, Justin; Wals, Arjen E.J.; Brody, Michael (2013) 'The evolving characteristics of environmental education research' In: Stevenson, Robert B., Dillon, Justin, Wals, Arjen E.J., and Brody, Michael (2013) The evolving characteristics of environmental education research. In: Stevenson, Robert B., Brody, Michael, Dillon, Justin, and Wals, Arjen E.J., (eds.) International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education. Routledge, New York, NY, USA, pp. 512-517(Eds.). International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education. New York, NY, USA : Routledge.
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Stevenson, Robert B. (2013) 'Researching tensions and pretensions in environmental/sustainability education policies: From critical to civically engaged policy scholarship' In: Stevenson, Robert B. (2013) Researching tensions and pretensions in environmental/sustainability education policies: From critical to civically engaged policy scholarship. In: Stevenson, Robert B., Brody, Michael, Dillon, Justin, and Wals, Arjen E.J., (eds.) International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education. Routledge, New York, USA, pp. 147-155(Eds.). International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education. New York, USA : Routledge.
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Stevenson, Robert B.; Robottom, Ian (2013) 'Critical action research and environmental education: conceptual congruencies and imperatives in practice' In: Stevenson, Robert B., and Robottom, Ian (2013) Critical action research and environmental education: conceptual congruencies and imperatives in practice. In: Stevenson, Robert B., Brody, Michael, Dillon, Justin, and Wals, Arjen E.J., (eds.) International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education. Routledge, New York, USA, pp. 469-479(Eds.). International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education. New York, USA : Routledge.
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Challenges for educators in building people's capacity for mitigating and adapting to climate change
2012
Stevenson, Robert B.; Nicholls, Jennifer; Whitehouse, Hilary (2012) 'Challenges for educators in building people's capacity for mitigating and adapting to climate change' In: Stevenson, Robert B., Nicholls, Jennifer, and Whitehouse, Hilary (2012) Challenges for educators in building people's capacity for mitigating and adapting to climate change. In: Wals, Arjen E.J., and Corcoran, Peter Blaze, (eds.) Learning for Sustainability in Times of Accelerating Change. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, The Netherlands, pp. 365-379(Eds.). Learning for Sustainability in Times of Accelerating Change. Wageningen, The Netherlands : Wageningen Academic Publishers. [DOI]
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Stevenson, Bob; Stirling, Carolyn (2010) 'Environmental learning and agency in diverse educational and cultural contexts' In: Stevenson, Bob, and Stirling, Carolyn (2010) Environmental learning and agency in diverse educational and cultural contexts. In: Stevenson, Robert B, and Dillon, Justin, (eds.) Engaging Environmental Education: Learning, Culture and Agency. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 219-237(Eds.). Engaging Environmental Education: Learning, Culture and Agency. Rotterdam, The Netherlands : Sense Publishers.
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