Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation

Herner Saeverot is Professor of Education at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in Bergen, and Professor II at NLA University College in Oslo, Norway.

• 1 Basic Constructs in the Science of Sustainability Education 2 SSE-Based Frame of Reference. Outlines for a Global Curriculum: Turning Existential Threats into Resources 3 Climate change. Foundations for a Transformative Learning Agenda 4 Biodiversity. The Decline in Global Biodiversity and How Education Can be Part of the Solution 5 Overpopulation: A Century of Debate that Deserves Re-Examination 6 Infectious Disease, Pandemics, and Education. From Miasms to Covid-19 7 Infectious Disease Threats—Antibiotic Resistance, Covid-19 and Future Pandemics 8 Holding Oneself in the World: Is there a Need for Good Egoism? 9 Inequality: Education, Opportunity and Existential Threat 10 Ideologies, Threats and Sustainability. How can Education and Knowledge of the Unforeseen Help Reduce the Threat Posed by Ideologies? 11 Understanding the Threat of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare 12 Artificial Intelligence: Is the Power Matched with Responsibility? 13 Ignorance and Truth Afterword

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