Families, Communities and Action Competence in Environmental and Sustainability Education: Reframing Learning for Sustainable Futures

The special issue, “Meeting Global Challenges through Families and Community Environmental and Sustainability Education: Generating Action Competence” aims to discover and address ways of meeting global educational and political challenges of sustainable futures from the perspective of families and community involvement. With contributions from multiple disciplinary and multidisciplinary fields it is organised around four thematic areas. Namely, Education for Empowering Communities for Change through Climate and Cultural Heritage; Families and Communities Educating for Sustainable Futures; Interdisciplinary Approaches to Education for Building Resilience in the face of Environmental Complexity and Uncertainty; and Integrating Methodologies for Researching and Developing Action Competence for Environmental and Community Sustainability through Education.