Leave No Trace and Sustainability Education: Taking a Dialectical Approach

Leave No Trace (LNT) is globally the most widely accepted minimum impact program and has been linked to behavior change maintenance of a range ecological measures. Critiques LNT have emerged, including that ignores wider impacts contribute climate diverse world views. Many outdoor education students carefully follow practices. When encounter these critiques, they often conclude either effective detractors are misplaced or should be abandoned, thereby avoiding deep engagement. Education must prepare for contested project creating sustainable future. We argue shows considerable promise as context learning through dialectical approaches where engage with divergent articles examples. can used help understand taking informed action important. also show there no innocent actions.