Environmental Education

Ecology Note – Towards Clean and Beautiful Capital City – is a supplementary material for primary school teachers who wish to introduce environmental education for the first time, or for those who want to enhance the scope of educational work in addition to what is already taught in the classrooms. The scope of environmental education is wide...

Phnom Penh Capital Administration (PPCA), Department of Education, Youth and Sports (DoEYS), and IGES Centre Collaborating with UNEP on Environmental Technologies (CCET) have jointly organized the Final Workshop on Promotion of Environmental Education (E.E.) in Primary Schools in Phnom Penh, with the aim of sharing the result of sharing the result...

Following The Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, environmental educators in Japan needed to face a tough introspection – what could environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) have done to prevent, or reduce, its disastrous damages. In this context, promoting resilience of communities to confront disasters emerged...

Governments are increasingly involving local communities and non-governmental organizations in the management of natural resources. The ways in which different stakeholders are involved varies from being consulted to taking a central role in planning and monitoring, andinfrequentlybeing given the legal right to manage resources. There can be many...

IGES published its first white paper entitled, "Sustainable Asia 2005 and Beyond - In the pursuit of innovative policies," which consolidates the primary outcomes of its policy research for sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific region since its establishment in 1998. Driven by buoyant economic development and continuous population growth...

IGES published its first white paper entitled, "Sustainable Asia 2005 and Beyond - In the pursuit of innovative policies," which consolidates the primary outcomes of its policy research for sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific region since its establishment in 1998. Driven by buoyant economic development and continuous population growth...

Strategy: Development of environmentally sustainable transport systems in urban areasEnvironmental areas: Climate change, air pollution, urban environmentCritical instruments: Awareness raising; design, planning and management; partnershipCountry: JapanLocation: SapporoParticipants: Hokkaido Regional Development Bureau (regional development branch...

As the United Nations International Decade of Education for Sustainable Development approaches, it is timely to identify the achievements in education that have been accomplished in the decade of educational innovation between the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)...