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Educating for Sustainability

Educating for Sustainability

Education is not an end in itself.


It is a key instrument for bringing about the changes in the knowledge, values, behaviours and lifestyles required to achieve sustainability and stability within and among countries, democracy, human security and peace.

Hence it must be a high priority to reorient educational systems and curricula towards these needs. Education at all levels and in all its forms constitutes a vital tool for addressing virtually all global problems relevant for sustainable development, in particular poverty, HIV/AIDS, environmental degradation, knowledge formation and sharing, rural development and changes in production and consumption patterns.

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ProjectsForum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)@
In collaboration with the "Forum for African Women Educationalists" (FAWE), ESD conducted a study on economic activities and technology needs of women farmers and producers in Machakos, Kenya.
 ProjectsGlobal Problematique Education Network Initiative (GENIe) UNITWIN/UNESCO CHAIRS Programme
UNESCO launched the Global Problematique Education Network Initiative, otherwise known as GENIe, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (Ohio, USA).
 ProjectsInternational Central-Asian Environmental Chair – Center of UNESCO Irkutsk Scientific Center RAS, Irkutsk, Russia UNITWIN/UNESCO CHAIRS Programme
This chair is established within the Irkutsk Scientific Center RAS, and involved in international programmes and contribution to an effective development of the network of Chairs in the universities of Eastern Siberia and abroad.
 ProjectsUNESCO Chair in Reorienting Teacher Education towards Sustainability, UNITWIN/UNESCO CHAIRS Programme
The purpose of this Chair is to take leadership in developing an international pilot network among existing teacher training institutions, based in part on the results of the UNESCO workshop held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in December 1997.
 ProjectsYouth, Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles UNESCO / UNEP
In a joint project , UNESCO and UNEP seek to gain better understanding of young people’s consumption patterns and to work with them in promoting more sustainable consumption patterns for the future.
 ArticlesA Dynamic Balance@
The dynamic balance between cultural differences and this emerging global ethic is a key concept in educating for a sustainable future.
ArticlesThinking about Forever@
Underlying all our images of a sustainable future is the key principle that sustainability is about 'thinking about forever'.
ArticlesWhat is sustainable development ?@
The term 'sustainable development' was popularised by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) in its 1987 report entitled Our Common Future.
EventsEducating for a sustainable future: action, commitments and partnerships@ 01-09-2002 10:00 pm
Parallel Event to the World Summit on Sustainable Development Organized by UNESCO and the South African Ministry of Education
DocumentsEducation for Sustainability - From Rio to Johannesburg: Lessons learnt from a decade of commitment UNESCO Education Sector
A report on the lessons learnt about the contribution of education to sustainable development over the decade between the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD).  
DocumentsPopulation et perspectives de développement du monde arabe UNESCO
Le présent travail s'inscrit dans la suite de la carte de la population du monde "L'humanité sur la planète".  
DocumentsYouth Xchange UNESCO
This guide and website have been designed to serve as a tool kit to help trainers involve the largest possible number of young people in sustainable consumption efforts.  
DocumentsYouth, Sustainable Consumption Patterns and Lifestyles UNESCO
This report reflects the results of the UNESCO / UNEP project on "Youth, sustainable consumption patterns and lifestyles", which was launched in March, 2000.  
DocumentsCultures of Populations, Population Dynamics and Sustainable Development UNESCO
This book analyses how sensitivity to socio-cultural knowledge is crucial for active participation thus creating the sense of belonging to policies and programmes that people can adopt as their own.  
DocumentsSocio-Cultural Research on Information, Education & Communication and Advocacy UNESCO
This Practical Guide is a follow-up activity to a major UNESCO/UNFPA Project (Understanding Socio-cultural factors Affecting Demographic Behaviour and Implication for the Formation and Execution of Population Policies and Programmes), commissioned by UNESCO and undertaken by Aidcom in Malaysia.  
DocumentsEasy Guide to Undertake Socio-Cultural Research UNESCO
The scope of this guide is limited to first time users in action-oriented participatory research. It provides the basic important concepts and tools for data collection and analysis for new and ongoing projects.  
DocumentsCambiar es posible UNESCO
Este libro presenta propuestas sobre desarrollo sostenible, que nos hablan de cooperación, entre gentes del Primer y Tercer Mundo.  
DocumentsEducation for a Sustainable Future in the Americas UNESCO / OAS
This monograph was published as part of the activities of the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Development 1997 - 2001 of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development.  
DocumentsLos Desafíos Ambientales UNESCO
La búsqueda de medios e instrumentos que faciliten acciones concertadas a todos los niveles para encontrar soluciones interdisciplinares e intersectoriales eficaces.  
DocumentsEducating for a Sustainable Future: A Transdiciplinary Vision for Concerted Action UNESCO
This document was prepared by UNESCO as Task Manager for Chapter 36 of Agenda 21, as a contribution to the Work Programme of Education, Public Awareness and Training of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. The Work Programme "calls on UNESCO to take the lead in refining the concept and key messages of education for sustainable development".  
DocumentsEnvironment and Society: Education and Public Awareness for Sustainability UNESCO / Government of Greece
[Proceedings] Proceedings of the Thessaloniki International Conference held in December 1997.  
DocumentsOrganizing Knowledge for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development UNESCO / World Bank
Proceedings of a Concurrent Meeting of the Fifth Annual World Bank Conference on Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, "Partnerships for Global Ecosystem Management: Science, Economics and Law".  
DocumentsEducación en Población UNESCO
Se trata de una serie de textos destinados a la educación para la vida familiar en la escuela, elaborados por el Ministerio de Educación Nacional de Colombia.  
DocumentsEl análisis Interdisciplinar de la Problemática Ambiental UNESCO
Este texto nace del encuentro de un equipo interdisciplinario. El objetivo que persigue es presentar, de forma articulada, los diferentes enfoques o perspectivas que pueden ser utilizados para interpretar un fenómeno o problema ambiental.  
DocumentsLa Interpretación de la Problemática Ambiental: Enfoques Básicos UNESCO
Es un texto que tiene como primera finalidad introducir al lector en el enfoque sistémico, en la medida que tal modelo de pensamiento permite aproximarse a la cuestión ambiental, tomando en cuenta la complejidad de los sistemas naturales y sociales.  
DocumentsPRIMED, A Succesful Experience in Urban Intervention UNESCO
This book collates the experiences of some of the marginal districts of Medellin, Colombia, in the field of integrated territorial planning and management.  
DocumentsMy Beloved Planet UNESCO
With humour, but with scientific rigour, his book sets out some of the complex problems related to the environment and population that affect the whole world.  
DocumentsEducation for sustainable development
UNESCO’s Vision and Perspective
As the UN System’s principal organisation for Education, UNESCO will continue reinforcing its commitment to Education for All (EFA) and follow-up activities to the Dakar World Education Forum (April, 2000) through its vision of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This entails an integrated education approach to address inter-sectoral policies, strategies and programmes towards water, energy, health, agriculture and biodiversity (WEHAB) development.
 
DocumentsEducation and Sustainable Development: UNESCO’s Contribution to Agenda 21
Chapter 36 of Agenda 21, on Education, Awareness and Training states:

Education is critical for achieving environmental and ethical awareness, values and attitudes, skills and behaviour consistent with sustainable development and for effective public participation in decision-making. Both formal and non-formal education are indispensable to . . . sustainable development.  
DocumentsChapter 36 of Agenda 21 "Promoting Education, Public Awareness and Training" United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
It provides an umbrella for all action related to education for sustainable development, including those foreseen by other UN conferences.  
DocumentsInternational Directory on Environmental Education Institutions
[Directory] This Directory provides an extensive list of about 600 environmental education training and research institutions around the world, comprising universities, research institutions, NGOs, training institutions, and others.  
DocumentsProspects - Quaterly Review of Comparative Education
Issue 113 - UNESCO 2000. Open Files, Education for Sustainable Development  
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