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Podcast: New Books in Public Policy
Episode: Sayan Dey, "Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems" (Routledge, 2022)
Description: This book studies the importance of adopting Sayan Dey's book Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems (Routledge, 2022) as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against any form of impending pandemics in the post-COVID era and beyond. It argues that anti-nature and capitalistic knowledge systems have contributed to the evolution and growth of COVID-19 across the globe and emphasises the merits of reinstating nature-based and environment-friendly pedagogical and curricular infrastructures in mainstream educational institutions. The volume also explores possible ways of weaving ecology and the environment as a habitual practice of teaching and learning in an intersectional manner with Science and Te...