Schooling for Sustainable Development in Europe


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This book examines the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) programs in schools across Europe. It describes and analyzes how individual countries and the region as a whole have established teaching and learning methods to help students develop the competencies needed to be part of a sustainable society. Featuring chapters written by experts throughout Europe, the book first provides a general overview of ESD in various contexts, including the state-of-the-art of ESD theory and conceptual development; political and social analysis; the various concepts of ESD competencies; and teacher training. Next, the book details how ESD has been implemented in different European countries and regions, including: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Catalonia, Hungary, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Flanders, France, Cyprus, UK and the Netherlands. In recognition of education as a motor of change, the United Nations General Assembly declared a Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), calling for the integration of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning. Inside this book, readers will find details on what has been done, as well as assessments of what more could be done, across Europe. It will help readers gain valuable insights into how to help students develop the knowledge, skills and values needed to shape a sustainable future.




OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: France 2016


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This report is the third Environmental Performance Review of France. It evaluates progress towards sustainable development and green growth, with a focus on energy transition and biodiversity.




Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development from Rio to Rio+20


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The Challenges of Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development from Rio to Rio+20 and Beyond is an innovative and original book which addresses in an analytical and critical way the issues raised by Rio+20. Its content offers a wealth of information from world leading experts in the fields of international law, international environmental law and international health law. The book provides a unique insight in issues which are at the core of the contemporary management of social, environmental and economic questions and thus represents a very important contribution to our further understanding of the concept of sustainable development. It is aimed at a global audience and at anybody interested in the future of our Planet and the fate of future generations. Contributors are: Pia Acconci, Estelle Brosset, Francesco Buonomenna, Lucien Chabason, Carina Costa de Oliveira, Angela Di Stasi, Jérôme Dubois, Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Leonardus Gerber, Elizabeth Hodson de Jaramillo, Sophie Lavallée, Antonio Leandro, Sandrine Maljean-Dubois, Panos Merkouris, Claudia Napoli, Stefania Negri, Anna Oriolo, Rossana Palladino, Teresa Russo, Ingrid Schuler, Francesco Sindico, José Manuel Sobrino Heredia, Hélène Tigroudja, Valentina Vadi, Anna Vigorito




Culture | 2030 indicators


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Éducation, environnement et développement durable ...


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Le concept de développent durable traverse désormais l'espace public. L'éducation au développement durable est devenue une injonction ministérielle dans différents pays. Elle s'inscrit dans les programmes scolaires. Ce concept de développement durable donne pourtant lieu à de multiples interprétations, parfois contradictoires. Il est donc important de marquer un temps d'arrêt afin d'analyser les fondements idéologiques des concepts de développement durable et d'éducation au développement durable, ce qui peut y faire controverses, tout comme les caractéristiques des représentations et des pratiques éducatives qui s'en réclament. Les universitaires ayant contribué à ce livre s'interrogent sur ces mutations subtiles et sur leurs effets, non seulement pour les enseignants, les praticiens, et les nouvelles générations d'élèves, mais également dans l'espace public – que ce soit au Québec, en France, en Belgique. C'est toute notre façon de concevoir l'environnement et l'éducation à l'environnement qui est ici questionnée. L'éducation au développement durable correspond-elle à une réorientation profonde des principes à l'origine de l'éducation relative à l'environnement? Sert-elle des fins de justice sociale en s'inspirant de visons du monde différentes? Recherche-t-elle des rapports à la nature et à l'autre renouvelés vers une écocitoyenneté critique? Contribue telle à renforcer les dialogues sciences-société? Pour répondre à ces questions, la première partie du livre analyse les orientations idéologiques du développement durable et de l'éducation au développement durable. La deuxième partie cerne finement des représentations et des pratiques éducatives en éducation au développement durable et la troisième partie traite de la question centrale du rapport au savoir scientifique à privilégier, des types de formation et de l'enseignement des controverses. Les prises de position regroupées dans ce livre ne sont pas uniformes. Certaines, plus critiques s'interrogent sur les dérives idéologiques possibles d'autres plus pragmatiques, soulignent les représentations et les pratiques fécondes. Leur mise en correspondance ouvre ici un espace de mise en dialogue stimulant et original. Ce livre marque un tournant dans l'étude de l'éducation à l'environnement et de l'éducation au développement durable. Il permettra aux éducateurs, aux didacticiens, aux chercheurs, aux étudiants et aux décideurs de comprendre que nous assistons à un changement à la fois déterminant et subtil dans nos manières de concevoir l'éducation et la protection de l'environnement.




Realizing the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education


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This insightful book analyses the process of the first adoption of guiding human rights principles for education, the Abidjan Principles. It explains the development of the Abidjan Principles, including their articulation of the right to education, the state obligation to provide quality public education, and the role of private actors in education.




Environmental and Sustainability Education in Teacher Education


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This book was inspired by the inaugural National Roundtable on Environmental and Sustainability Education in Canadian Faculties of Education (Roundtable 2016), which took place June 14-16, 2016, at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Roundtable 2016 brought together over seventy participants from across Canada, including educators, researchers, policy-makers, consultants, and community organizations. Over the course of three days, participants took part in keynote addresses, research colloquia, networking socials, and collaborative inquiry activities focused on Environmental Sustainability Education in Teacher Education (ESE-TE). Roundtable 2016 resulted in the publication of a National Action Plan containing action-oriented recommendations for enhancing ESE-TE, and a position statement titled “The Otonabee Declaration,” where delegates articulated their views regarding environmental degradation, the critical need for enhancing ESE-TE, and, the role educators, children, youth, educational institutions, policy makers, and Indigenous communities play in enhancing ESE-TE in Canada. This volume concludes with a discussion placing current Canadian ESE-TE theory and practice within an international context.




Under Development: Gender


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Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Looking at key issues in development studies through the prisms of gender and feminism, the authors demonstrate that gender is an indispensable tool for social change.




An Introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources


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The African Convention on the conservation of nature and natural resources was adopted in 1968 in Algiers. Considered the most forward looking regional agreement of the time, it influenced significantly the development of environmental law in Africa. Two and a half decades of intense developments in international environmental law made it necessary to revise this treaty, update its provisions and enlarge its scope. This was undertaken under the auspices of the African Union (previously OAU), and the revision was adopted by its Heads of State and Government in July 2003 in Maputo. The introduction provides an overview of this new international treaty, as well as a commentary to each of its provisions.