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UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) (2002) Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Euture. 

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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 ... 

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. 

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Houtzager G (2003) The complete encyclopedia of Greek mythology. Chartwell Books, Edison, NJ lUGS (2002) International stratigraphic chart. Commission on the Geologic Map of the World, UNESCO, United Nations, New York... 

UNESCO has summarized its efforts up until the mid 1990s in a report on cultural rights of persons belonging to minorities that fall under the scope of UNESCO United Nations Educational, S. a. C. O. E. B. (1994) Protection and Promotion of the Cultural Rights of Persons Belonging to Minorities, Within UNESCO s Fields of Competence UNESDOC 144 EX/15. See also Girona Conference 05-08/02/1992 (1991) Cultural Rights of Peoples in Europe Centre UNESCO de Catalunya. 

W. Majewski and D. C. Miller, eds.. Predicting Effects of Power Plant Once-Through Cooling on Aquatic Systems, Technical Papers in Hydrology 20, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco), Paris, 1979. 

Bioethics is a discipline that deals with the moral issues of biological research and its application in medicine. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in its 2005 Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights addresses ethical issues related to medicine, life sciences, and associated technologies as applied to human beings. The aim of the declaration is to provide a universal framework of principles and procedures... 

United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). 1996. World Science Report 1996, edited by H. Moore. Paris UNESCO. Available at http //www.unesco. org/science/publication/eng pub/wsr96en.htm [Accessed January 12, 2006]. 

United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). 2005. Universal Draft Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. Draft 33 C22. Paris UNESCO. Adopted October 2005. 

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 2005. Teaching and learning for a sustainable future A multimedia teacher education programme. http //www. unesco.org/education/tlsf/ (accessed August 21, 2009). 

Kofi-Tsekpo, W.M. (1997). Pharmaceutical applications of ethnobotany. Conservation and utilization of indigenous medicinal plants and wild relatives of food crops. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Nairobi. 

Clearly sickle cell disease is a major health concern in the United States. It is of course a far bigger concern in Africa where millions of individuals suffer because of a lack of resources and the historically low priority of sickle cell disease among pubhc health decision makers (13,18). In response to the seriousness of the problem in many developing nations, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched several initiatives to enhance coimnunity education and training of health care professionals in affected areas (18,19). 

Documents and publications of UNESCO are listed and indexed in United Nations Documents Index, A description of the documentation system used therein appears in Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1951. These documents may be consulted in depository libraries selected by UNESCO, a list of which can be obtained on request, or purchased individually. All documents intended for distribution to the public may be received on a blanket annual subscription for 30, placed with International Documents Service, Division of Columbia University Press. 2960 Broadway, New York 27, N. Y. 

SOURCE National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Indicators 2006, based on data from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Center for Education Research and Innovation, Education database, wwwl.oecd. org/scripts/cde/members/edu uoeauthenticate.asp United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Institute for Statistics database, bttp-.llwww. unesco.org/ statistics, and national sources. 

FAO (1977). Soil map of the world, Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations. UNESCO, Paris. 

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1988. FAO/Unesco Soil Map of the World (revised legend). World Soil Resources Report 60. FAO, Rome, 119 pp. 

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