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Eco-Schools: Engaging the Youth of Today to Protect the Planet of Tomorrow
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Madsen, Kristina – Childhood Education, 2022
Eco-Schools is the largest global sustainability school program, with over 59,000 schools that engage 20 million students and 1.4 million teachers across 93 countries. The program was developed in response to the needs identified at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (also known as the Earth Summit) in Rio de Janeiro in…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Conservation (Environment), Sustainable Development, Environmental Education
Local Governments and Sustainable Development: Nurturing Best Practices through Horizontal Learning Process (HLP) across Countries
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Lahiri, Santanu; Rajan, J. B. – Teaching Public Administration, 2022
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. To maintain the pace of development, local government institutions (LGIs) in many countries have started adapting innovative good practices. These practices are being generated as an…
Descriptors: Local Government, Sustainable Development, Best Practices, Learning Processes
Local Governments and Sustainable Development: Nurturing Best Practices through Horizontal Learning Process (HLP) across Countries
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Lahiri, Santanu; Rajan, J. B. – Teaching Public Administration, 2022
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. To maintain the pace of development, local government institutions (LGIs) in many countries have started adapting innovative good practices. These practices are being generated as an…
Descriptors: Local Government, Sustainable Development, Best Practices, Learning Processes
From Environmental Education to Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education: A Systematic Review
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Acosta Castellanos, Pedro Mauricio; Queiruga-Dios, Araceli – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: In education concerning environmental issues, there are two predominant currents in the world, environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD). ESD is the formal commitment and therefore promoted by the United Nations, to ensure that countries achieve sustainable development. In contrast, EE was the first…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Engineering Education