ABSTRACT
The growing importance of sustainable development on the global agenda results from urgent challenges including climate change and extreme weather events, pandemics, dramatic inequality across and within countries, new and ongoing intra- and inter-state conflicts, and continuing unacceptably high levels of poverty and lack of basic resources and services. Many educational institutions have sought to prepare students to address these sustainability concerns as well as the greater need for humanitarian and disaster responses. This book situates the work of a key network of sustainable development graduate programs, the Global Association of Masters of Development Practice (GAMDP), in the broader context of shifts in development priorities and frameworks. The examination of the MDP program, its educational philosophy and practices, and their relationship to the shifting global development terrain yields some important lessons for sustainable development education through the series of thematic chapters in this volume. This concluding chapter highlights the key findings of the book and what they suggest about education for the next generation of sustainable development practitioners.
