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With global warming and environmental plights, new guidance concepts are needed to question the mainstream individualistic career development theories and practices. There is more at stake. Green guidance puts a wider perspective to career choices: What is the environmental impact of a particular career path? Guidance needs a reorientation, a new approach. In this chapter it is argued that just like Frank Parsons a 100 years ago in the USA was seen as a utopian in his vision of the role of guidance and counseling in creating a balanced, just, and peaceful society, the guidance philosophies of our times need to envisage a shift toward a greener future. The role of guidance in this respect has far-reaching implications: Green guidance could be proactive, questioning, probing, reflexive, and client centered in the new sense. Green guidance questions a simplistic economic growth agenda and points to wider and greener growth approaches.
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Plant, P. (2014). Green Guidance. In: Arulmani, G., Bakshi, A., Leong, F., Watts, A. (eds) Handbook of Career Development. International and Cultural Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9460-7_17
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