Education at the Commission on Sustainable Development: the perception of the international community

Jennifer Young
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Jennifer Young: Farnborough College of Technology

Environment Systems and Decisions, 2000, vol. 20, issue 2, 169-178

Abstract: Abstract This paper explores the role of education as it might assist in achieving a sustainable world. It examines the perceptions of the international community present at the seventh session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). A survey was conducted of 146 delegates and UN staff over the two weeks of the Commission's session in April 1999. The survey identified the primary importance placed on education as a cross-cutting theme of sustainability and the need for efforts to be co-ordinated to achieve education for sustainable development at all levels. To make further progress for implementing Agenda 21, the task management by UNESCO must improve through instigation of a supportive reporting system at the CSD. The education community must receive appropriate support and funding to make effective progress at local and national levels to implement the work programme for education, public awareness and training.

Keywords: sustainable; development; education; international; commission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1023/A:1006764227840

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