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Outline
Environmental education is characterized with a
multitude of problems including lack of appropriate material for
raising environmental awareness. Many problems are linked with
the condition of the environmental deterioration. In order to address
these problems, the scope of education has broadened to include
the essence of sustainable development and thereby the evolution
of a new concept, education for sustainable development (ESD).
With a view to make its activities action-oriented, the Environmental
Education (EE) Project developed its theme to identify the appropriate
mode of disseminating environmental information, knowledge, wisdoms
and best practices in the Asia-Pacific region.
Unlike the activities in the first phase (1998-2000), the second phase
(2001-2003) activities were concentrated on disseminating environmental
knowledge, wisdom, and best practices in the region. Because of the nature
of this focus, the EE Project adopted the philosophy of action research,
and thus made its activities more specific and practical. These were further
enhanced by the United Nations declaration that the ten-year period (2005-2014)
will be the Decade on Education for Sustainable Development. The EE Project
was successful in organising some brainstorming sessions on ESD and in
championing its cause around the region. Indeed, IGES has emerged as the
pioneer institute in the advocacy of ESD. Three reports on ESD are testimony
of its efforts to raise the profile of ESD. This is the niche that should
be taken into consideration by IGES to promote environmental education
in the future.
Despite its success, the EE Project has come to end its activities at the
end of its second phase. Earnest efforts to merge it with the existing
Capacity Building Programme into a new proposed Capacity Building for Sustainability
(CBS) Project could not be materialised. The idea was inadvertently aborted
in the middle of the process, followed by the decision to close the EE
Project for good. This is a most unfortunate event for the research. Nevertheless,
the idea and spirit of environmental education has not been eliminated
completely, as each IGES project is carrying on its activities in different
forms and shapes. This features the indispensability of environmental education
in the dissemination of strategic research findings in the future. With
this short note we would like to announce the successful termination of
the EE Project.
Report of the Second
Phase Strategic Research
Environmental Education Project
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Past Activities
Nature Games for Parents and Children to Enjoy
The event "Nature Games for Parents and Children
to Enjoy" was held as part of the Shonan International Village
Festival on 3 May 2003. As a regular event of the festival, nature
games are planned each year by the IGES Environmental Education
Project. Thanks to the cooperation of the Kanagawa Nature Games
Association, four instructors holding qualifications as nature
games leaders were dispatched and the games were held using the
grounds of the IGES Research Centre.
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Workshop at KU Hone at Kasetsart University in
Bangkok, Thailand
The IGES/Environmental Education Project
(hereinafter called EE Project) organized a workshop
entitled "The Workshop on the Evaluation of the
Educational Materials" in cooperation with Ramsar
Center Japan and the Faculty of Environmental Resources
Studies, Mahidol University. The workshop was held in
Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand from 7 to 9
January 2003. Prof. Osamu Abe (Project Leader), Dr. Bishnu
B. Bhandari (Senior Research Fellow) & Mr. Masahiro Takahashi
(Project Manager) represented the EE Project in the workshop.
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Considering Strategies for Environmental Education
in the Asia-Pacific Region: Findings of IGES Research on Environmental
Education
The IGES Environmental Education(EE) Project
held a seminar entitled "Considering Strategies for Environmental
Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Findings of IGES
research on environmental education," as part of the
13th convention of the Japanese Society of Environmental
Education held from 24 to 26 May, 2002, at the Miyagi
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Contact
Mr.
Takahashi (Researcher, Long-term Perspective and Policy Integration
Project)
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