Education for sustainable development

U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development, http //www.uspartnership.org (accessed Sep 30,2008). 

D. Kriebel, J. Tickner and C. Crumbley, Appropriate Science Evaluating Environmental Risks for a Sustainable World, presented at Education for Sustainable Development, Committee on Industrial Theory and Assessment, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, October 23-24, 2003. 

The challenges that we face place an enormous responsibility on the education of our children. There is a need for education for sustainable development (ESD). In the context of the UNESCO United Nation s Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), UNESCO defines ESD as follows ... 

Education for sustainable development, especially at the secondary level,. .. [involves] a process of learning how to make decisions that consider the long-term stabihty of the economy, ecology and equity of all communities. Building the capacity for such future-oriented thinking is a key task of education and training. [8]... 

Education for sustainable development requires a different mindset characterised by a helicopter view of the subject matter and its interactions with nature and... 

UNESCO United Nations Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014). http //portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.phpRL lD = 27234 URL DO = DO TOPIC URL SECTION = 201.html. Accessed 12 May 2008. 

Organizations Green Jobs, the World Resources Forum, and the Decade of Education in Sustainable Development, to name a few. The United Nations has defined Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as encouraging changes in behavior that will create a more sustainable future in terms of environmental integrity, economic viability, and a just society for present and future generations. This defines the crux of sustainability competency for mechanical engineering education. 

The Alliance for Global Sustainability (2006). The Observatory Status of Engineering Education for Sustainable Development in European Hi er Education, EESD-Observatory, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, p. 4, Available at http //www.upc.edu./eesd-observatory/ (Accessed 28 May 2010). 

Education for sustainable development does not aim at changing people s lifestyles, but at empowering and encouraging them to participate in designing sustainable development and to critically reflect on their own action in this area. ... 

UNESCO, Education for Sustainable Development. From Rio to Johannesburg Lessons learnt from a decade of commitment, Report presented at the Johannesburg world summit for Sustainable Development, UNESCO, Paris, 2002. 

F. Rauch, What do regulative ideas in education for sustainable development and scientific literacy as myth have in common in Contemporary Science Education - Implications from Science Education Research about Orientations, Strategies and Assessment, ed. I. Eilks and B. Ralle, Shaker, Aachen,2010,pp.35-46. 

M. Burmeister, F. Rauch and I. Bilks, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and chemistry education, Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 2012,13, 59-68. 

A. Hiramatsu, K. Takabay, R. Utsumi, H. Fuji and H. Ogawa, A lesson model fostering fine ideas in chemistry concerning biodiesel on the basis of Education for Sustainable Development potentialities for collaboration with social studies, Chem. Educ. J., 2009,13, retrieved from the World Wide Web, December 30, 2012, at http //chem.sci.utsunomiya-u. ac.jp/vl3nl/indexE.html. 

F. Rauch, The potential of Education for Sustainable Development for reform in schools. Environ. Educ. Res., 2002, 8,43-52. 

The central focus of education for sustainable development (ESD) is to prepare the younger generation to become responsible citizens in the future. Students should be able to participate in a democratic society and to help in shaping future society in a sustainable fashion. They should learn to take responsibility for both themselves and future generations, based on the concept of sustainable development. ... 

From the beginning the United Nations added a key role for sustainable development to education. The idea of education for sustainable development... 

The project is funded by the Federal German Environmental Trust [Deutsche Bundesstiftung UmweU) and, in 2014, was awarded an official project of the United Nations Decade on Education for Sustainable Development. 

R. McKeown, Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit, http //www. esdtoolkit.org/about.htm (accessed February 2014). 

The advancement of GCE in Russia builds on the efforts of environmental education and education for sustainable development in its best methodologies and forms. The greening of higher education in the Soviet Union began in 1983 at the then Moscow Mendeleyev Institute of Chemical Technology, with the initiative of its rector, the future Minister of Education and academician G.A. Yagodin, who founded the Department of Industrial Ecology. 

UNESCO, Report on Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, www. unesco.org/educationon/desd, 2006. 

M. Karpudewan, Z. Ismail and N. Mohamed, Pre Service Teachers Environmental Values an Indicator for Curriculum Reform to Address Education for Sustainable Development. Proceedings for World Conference on Science and Technology Education Sustainable. Responsible. Global Perth, Australia, 2007. 

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