- Title
- Water, Transport, Oil and Food: A Political–Economy–Ecology Lens on Changing Conceptions of Work, Learning and Skills Development in Africa
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434894
- Identifier
- vital:73114
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1529224634
- Identifier
- https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/transitioning-vocational-education-and-training-in-africa
- Description
- Not enough has been said about the kinds of skills develop-ment that are needed if we are to stem the rising tides and impacts of political economies that have been driving what some call ‘fossil capital’(Malm, 2016). In this book, we are producing an emerging argument that it is necessary to also rethink and reframe vocational education and training (VET) logics and approaches if we are to fully consider the implica-tions of a warming future. This chapter provides the context of why this is such an urgent challenge and some thinking tools for understanding where we have come from and where we need to go. The prognosis is that it is now almost impossible to stop global warming below 2oC. The 2021 In-tergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is-sued a ‘red alert’for humanity, noting climate change to be one of the most severe challenges facing human societies for decades and potentially centuries to come. Scientists are warning that we have entered a new ‘geological epoch’, named the ‘Anthropocene’, in which human activity, especial-ly the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through fossil-based pollution, is transforming the stability of the earth system and creating knock on effects such as ice melt and methane release, which exacerbate the impacts of pollutants on the stability of the earth system.
- Format
- 18 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Lotz-Sisitka, H., 2023. Water, Transport, Oil and Food: A Political–Economy–Ecology Lens on Changing Conceptions of Work, Learning and Skills Development in Africa. In Transitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa (pp. 37-54). Bristol University Press
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