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Reports on Sustainability
National
Kasvaminen maailmanlaajuiseen vastuuseen
A report 
in Finnish by Monica Melen-Paaso
Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture
Baltic 21 E network
This report by Turku University of Applied Sciences includes information on all the sustainable development related virtual courses that were discovered in questionnaires conducted in 2007 and 2010. Altogether 38 courses were discovered. The questionnaires showed that virtual courses already apply a multitude of learning management systems.
International
Earnings, jobs and innovation: the role of recycling in a green economy
EEA Report No. 8/2011
Recycling has multiple benefits for many areas of the economy – providing raw materials, creating jobs and encouraging business opportunities and innovation. These economic benefits of recycling are examined in a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The report considers the recycling industry in the context of building a 'green economy', a major European policy objective. Recycling industry can boost the European economy
The report shows that recycling has numerous environmental benefits including diverting waste away from landfill, thereby avoiding pollutant emissions. It also helps meet the material demands of economic production, preventing the environmental impacts associated with extracting and refining virgin materials.
Europe's forests at a glance — a breath of fresh air in a changing climate
Forests do not only provide us food, fibre and medicine, they regulate our climate and improve our quality of life. Human activities and climate change exert increasing pressure on our forest resources and the services they provide. With increasing demand on forests services on the one side, and uncertainty and risks linked to climate change on the other, we need to ensure that forests can continue fulfilling their multifunctional role.
Download your own copy of this EEA report.
Climate Change is not the Problem
Annual Report 2010
Global Footprint Network
Nobel Laureates hand over recommendations to UN High Level Panel on global sustainability.
The Stockholm Memorandum concludes that the planet has entered a new geological age, the Anthropocene. It recommends a suite of urgent and far-reaching actions for decision makers and societies to become active stewards of the planet for future generations.
The verdict from the trial of humanity, which opened the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium, has been incorporated into the Stockholm Memorandum: Tipping the Scales towards Sustainability.
Drivers and Barriers to Implementing ESD with Focus on UNESCO's Action and Strategy Goals for the Second Half of the Decade
by D. Gross & S. Nakayama
Results of an international survey on UNESCO's goals have been published, performed by German-Japanese cooperation on ESD (NGO). The gained insights isolate those goals which will be most promising in being realized till the end of the Decade.
There are also critical comments on the German and Japanese governmental approaches for the Second Half.
Global Environmental Research, vol. 14, No. 2, 2010, AIRIES, Japan. Education for Sustainable Development: Promises and Challenges.
The global food system is under scrutiny for environmental impacts including habitat degradation, greenhouse gas emissions and freshwater use. Half the world’s farmers go hungry, while around a billion people are clinically obese. Demand for food is growing and yields are falling. Radical and rapid systemic change is required.
Learn more by watching the video briefing in the SustainAbility Library.
Mapping hotspots of climate change and food insecurity in the global tropics.
by Ericksen P, Thornton P, Notenbaert A, Cramer L, Jones P, Herrero M. 2011. CCAFS Report no. 5. CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Copenhagen, Denmark.
This study was coordinated by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) to identify areas that are food insecure and vulnerable to the impacts of future climate change, across the priority regions for the CGIAR centres. The research was undertaken by a team of scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). The study relied on maps: first, of variables that indicate the different aspects of food security (availability, access and utilization), and second, of thresholds of climate change exposure important for agricultural systems. Vulnerability was assessed using a domain approach based upon the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) framework of vulnerability as a function of exposure, sensitivity and coping capacity. Nine domains were identified; for each domain areas of the tropics were classified by high or low exposure, high or low sensitivity, and high or low coping capacity.
Towards a Green Economy. Pathways to sustainable and poverty eradication.
UNEP's Green Economy Report, entitled Towards a Green Economy, aims to debunk several myths and misconceptions about the economics of "greening" the global economy, and provides timely and practical guidance to policy makers on what reforms they need to unlock the productive and employment potential of a green economy.
First Census of Marine Life 2010: Highlights of a Decade of Discovery
This is a 64-page report that describes some of the scientific highlights of ten years of exploration, research and analysis undertaken by Census of Marine Life scientists. Included is a description of the Census research projects and organizational structure.
See also the Census of Marine Life web site for more information.
The Living Planet Report 2010 is the World's leading, science-based analysis on the health of our only planet and the impact of human activity. The report is published by WWF.
Its key finding?
Humanity's demands exceed our planet's capacity to sustain us. That is, we ask for more than what we have.
See also the report's web site.
The Future of Food and Farming
The Foresight project Global Food and Farming Futures Final report and executive summary provide an overview of the evidence and discuss the challenges and choices for policy makers and others whose interests relate to all aspects of the global food system.
The report’s main findings are:
- Threat of hunger could increase.
- The global food system is living outside its means, consuming resources faster than are naturally replenished.
- There is no quick fix.
State of the World 2011
Innovations that Nourish the Planet
by Worldwatch Institute
Published annually in 28 languages, State of the World is long established as the most authoritative and accessible annual guide to our progress towards a sustainable future. It is relied upon by national governments, UN agencies, development workers and law-makers for its up-to-the-minute analysis and information.
COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Council conclusions on education for sustainable development
3046th EDUCATION, YOUTH, CULTURE and SPORT Council meeting
Brussels, 18 and 19 November 2010
The Council adopted the following conclusions:
"THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, HAVING REGARD TO
The EU Sustainable Development Strategy, first adopted in Gothenburg in 20011 and subsequently reviewed in 2006 and 2009, which provides a framework for a long-term vision of sustainability in which economic growth, social cohesion and environmental protection go hand in hand, and which highlights the key role of education as a prerequisite for promoting the behavioural changes and providing all citizens with the key competences needed to achieve sustainable development.
The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), which seeks to integrate the principles, values and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning, and the 2009 UNESCO world conference on Education for Sustainable Development held in Bonn, which - in its concluding Declaration - agreed that investment in such education is an investment in the future and indeed, in some cases, a life-saving measure.
The European Environment
State and Outlook 2010
The SOER 2010 Synthesis provides an overview of the European environment's state, trends and prospects, integrating the main findings of SOER 2010.
Europeans depend heavily on the stocks of natural capital and flows of ecosystem services that lie within and beyond Europe's borders. Two fundamental questions arise from this dependency. Are the stocks and flows today being used sustainably to supply essential benefits, such as food, water, energy, materials, as well as climate and flood regulation? Are today's environmental resources, i.e. air, water, soil, forests, biodiversity, secure enough to be able to sustain people and economies in good health in the future?
EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
The EUSBSR was adopted by the Commission in June 2009 and endorsed by the European Council in October 2009. The overall roles and responsibilities of the multiple actors involved in the Strategy are described in the joint declaration signed by ministers from the eight EU Member States of the Baltic Sea Region in Stockholm in September 2009, and in the General Affairs Council Conclusions adopted on 27 October 2009.
The Declaration and Conclusions confirm the strong commitment by the Member States to the implementation of the Strategy. The Commission is invited to coordinate, to facilitate, to disseminate and to report on the actions undertaken by the Member States and the associated stakeholders, in accordance with the subsidiarity principle. The Strategy documents and more information about its preparation and the implementation process can be found on the EUSBSR website.
Fifth in the series of '10 messages for 2010', the EEA's assessment on forest ecosystems finds that while their overall area remains stable, woodlands face a variety of threats. Besides unsustainable management practices, air borne pollution and climate change, forests are also threatened by fragmentation due to rapidly spreading urban areas and transport networks. Both the healthy functioning of forest ecosystems and the biodiversity they foster are at risk.
Forests protect soil from erosion, regulate water flows and capture carbon from the atmosphere. Around and within urban areas, they are essential for providing fresh air, reducing dust and noise. They also serve as microclimate buffers against urban heat.
The wellbeing of numerous plants and animals, including many species protected by European Union legislation, is directly linked to forest ecosystems. Moreover, forest patches also play a critical role in facilitating species' movements through their connectivity with other ecosystems.
The Joint Operating Environment 2010
by the US Joint Forces Command
This report is intended to inform joint concept development and experimentation throughout the Department of Defense. It provides a perspective on future trends, shocks, contexts, and implications for future joint force commanders and other leaders and professionals in the national security field. This document is speculative in nature and does not suppose to predict what will happen in the next twenty-five years.
EcoRegion Perspectives on Sustainable Tourism
The EcoRegion Perspectives' series is published as part of the EcoRegion project, funded by the Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013. It documents practices and concepts on how to support sustainable development in the Baltic Sea Region. Each edition focuses on a specific sustainability topic, beginning with sustainable tourism in this first issue.
Signals 2010 - Biodiversity, Climate Change and You
The European Environment Agency (EEA) publishes Signals each year, providing snapshot stories on issues of interest to the environmental policy debate and the wider public in the coming year.
This year, Signals takes us on a journey, following the course of water from the glaciers of the Alps to the permafrost of the Arctic and the delta of the Ganges. Along the way, we discover how climate change is affecting the ancient water cycle in the mountains with repercussions for millions of people. We hear a mountain guide describe how the very make-up of the rock is changing as temperatures increase and the frozen core crumbles.
Low fertility rates, ageing populations, and a growing number of migrants from other countries and world regions - these are the factors that are set to change the face of Europe in the course of the coming decades. The stage was set for this development decades ago, but the zenith of ageing in European societies will be reached only in 30 - 40 years. It is very unlikely that Europe's population will grow much further, and shrinkage, the inevitable consequence, could soon set in.
10 messages for 2010
Marine Ecosystems: LIfe in Seas Under Threat
Marine biodiversity: life in seas under threat Climate change, pollution, acidification, over-exploitation of fish stocks, invasive alien species all threaten life in our seas and consequently the services we obtain from them. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) new short assessment of marine biodiversity takes a closer look at the ‘less known half’ of EU territory.
EEA Technical Report No 12/2009
The EU has highlighted the importance of using the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) to prevent the abandonment of high nature value farmland and its intensification as a key action to halt biodiversity decline. The present report sets out to assess whether the current distribution of CAP funds is likely to favour the maintenance of farmland with high nature value (HNV). And it explores the extent to which CAP funds are likely to support the long-term economic and ecological sustainability of these HNV farming systems.
Air Pollution by Ozone Across Europe During Summer 2009
EEA Technical Report No 2/2010
Ozone levels during summer 2009 were as low as during summer 2008 and according to several indicators were among the lowest since reporting of Europe-wide data commenced in 1997. In contrast to previous summers, in 2009 there were no pan-European multi-day episodes. Summer 2009 was characterised by ozone episodes of two to five days followed by spells with few exceedances. A typical episode usually contained approximately 7?13 % of the total number of exceedances of the information threshold experienced during the summer.
Four years on from nef's Growth isn’t Working, this new report goes one step further and tests that thesis in detail in the context of climate change and energy. It argues that indefinite global economic growth is unsustainable. Just as the laws of thermodynamics constrain the maximum efficiency of a heat engine, economic growth is constrained by the finite nature of our planet’s natural resources (biocapacity).
For more information please see the NEF web site.
Sustainable Innovation and Technology Transfer Industrial Sector Studies
RECYCLING - FROM E-WASTE TO RESOURCES
The appropriate handling of e-waste can both prevent serious environmental damage and also recover valuable materials, especially for metals. The recycling chain for e-waste is classified into three main subsequent steps: (i) collection, (ii) sorting/dismantling and preprocessing (including sorting, dismantling and mechanical treatment) and (iii) endprocessing.
All three steps should operate and interact in a holistic manner to achieve the overall recycling objectives. The main objectives of e-waste recycling and basic considerations for innovation are:
· Treat the hazardous fractions in an environmentally sound manner,
· Recover valuable material maximally,
· Create eco-efficient and sustainable business,
· Consider social impact and local context.
Under the Vision 2050 Project of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), 29 WBCSD member companies developed a vision of a world well on the way to sustainability by 2050, and a pathway leading to that world – a pathway that will require fundamental changes in governance structures, economic frameworks, business and human behavior. It emerged that these changes are necessary, feasible and offer tremendous business opportunities for companies that turn sustainability into strategy.
Transport at a crossroads. TERM 2008: indicators tracking transport and environment in the European Union
EEA Report No 3/2009
The TERM 2008 report examines performance of the transport sector vis-a-vis environmental performance and concludes that there are plenty of options for synergies between different policy initiatives but also a risk of measures counteracting each other.
Progress Towards the European 2010 Biodiversity Target
EEA Report no.4/2009
As the first indicator-based assessment of progress towards the European target of halting biodiversity loss by 2010, this report serves two purposes. First, it takes stock of the state of biodiversity and its loss in Europe based on the most recent data available. Second, it functions as a bridge to a comprehensive assessment of the 2010 target to be done in 2010. As such, the indicators in this report do not only show what is currently known. They also show where information is missing and what more needs to be measured and examined to enable a comprehensive assessment in 2010.
Pharmaceuticals in the Environment — Result of an EEA workshop
A decade ago, the EEA and others first drew attention to the environmental impact of pharmaceuticals. Since then awareness has increased and research projects funded by the EU and others have expanded understanding of the use, exposure, fate, accumulation and impacts of pharmaceuticals in the environment. To help assess and disseminate the research findings to date, the EEA organised an expert workshop in January 2009. The workshop's conclusions, set out in the present report, highlight the need for action to improve further our understanding and management of risks.
Review of Contexts and Structures for Education for Sustainable Development
Learning for a sustainable world
UNESCO 2009
UNESCO has just published this review by Arjen Wals about related contexts and structures for the development, promotion and evaluation of ESD initiatives, projects and frameworks worldwide.
Greenhouse Gas Emission Trends and Projections in Europe 2009
This report presents an assessment of the current and projected progress of EU Member States, EU candidate countries and other EEA member countries towards their respective targets under the Kyoto Protocol and of progress towards the EU target for 2020. This is based on their past greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2007, and the projected greenhouse gas emissions of these countries during the Kyoto commitment period 2008-2012 and for 2020, derived from data and related information they provided before 1 June 2009.
For further information please see the European Environment Agency web site.
World Energy Outlook 2009
The 2009 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO), was released on 10 November and it provides updated projections that take into account the implications of the global credit crisis, the economic slowdown and the recent slump in the prices of oil and other forms of energy. It also presents in-depth analysis of three special topics:
- Financing energy investment under a post-2012 climate framework
- Prospects for global natural gas markets
- Energy trends in Southeast Asia
For further information see the International Energy Agency.
United Nations
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
World Economic and Social Survey 2009
Promoting Development, Saving the Planet
The central message of the World Economic and Social Survey 2009 is that addressing the climate challenge cannot be met through ad hoc and incremental actions. In the first place, it requires much stronger efforts by advanced countries to cut their emissions. The fact that in this regard more than a decade has been lost since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change1 only adds urgency to those efforts. However, even if advanced countries begin to match their words with deeds, their efforts are, by themselves, unlikely to be sufficient to meet the climate challenge. The active participation of developing countries is now required and such participation can occur only if it allows economic growth and development to proceed in a rapid and sustainable manner.
Please see to the UN News Centre web site for more information.
Sustainable Cotton Production - An Achievable Goal in the Aral Sea Area?
This report aims to fill knowledge gaps in our understanding of cotton production, industry and trade and to update information on the environmental catastrophe of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. The vanishing Aral Sea, which by 2007 had decreased to 10% of the size it was at the beginning of the 1960s, has become a symbol of poor environmental management. Not only that, the Aral Sea is a perfect example of how all of society and nature is affected, socially, culturally, economically, and environmentally. Overall, it shows that sustainability of cotton production needs to have environmental management as the main focus and that nature’s self-healing properties is not sufficient for repairing a man-induced distortion of the water resources when the size of the projects cover several 100 000 ha.
A report by Ingrid Karlsson and Gunilla Björklund, The Swedish Aral Sea Society in cooperation with Gudrun Sjödén Design AB.
International Energy Outlook 2009
This report presents an assessment by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the outlook for international energy markets through 2030. U.S. projections appearing in IEO2009 are consistent with those published in EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2009 (AEO2009), (March 2009). A revised, updated AEO2009 reference case projection was released on April 17, 2009. It reflects the impact of provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA2009), enacted in mid-February 2009, on U.S. energy markets. The revised AEO2009 reference case includes updates for the U.S. macroeconomic outlook, which has been changing at an unusually rapid rate in recent months. Throughout IEO2009, significant changes to the U.S. outlook relative to the published AEO2009 reference case are noted for the reader’s reference.
European Community Emission Inventory Report 1990-2007 under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP)
The European Community's air pollutant emission inventory report released by the European Environment Agency finds that in 2007, sulphur oxides (SOx) emissions were down by 72 % from 1990 levels. The downward emission trend of three main pollutants which cause ground-level ozone continued in 2007: carbon monoxide (CO) fell by 57 %, non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs) were down by 47 % and nitrogen oxides (NOx) have dropped 36 %. EU-27 emissions of all four pollutants were lower in 2007 than in 2006.
Emissions of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), a seriously health-damaging pollutant, have decreased by 2 % compared to the previous year and by about 12 % since the year 2000. However, reporting of PM emissions from Member States is less complete than for the other main pollutants.
In 2007 the top polluting sources in the EU-27 were fuel combustion in households, passenger cars, heavy duty vehicles, and in power plants.
Annual European Community Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990–2007 and Inventory Report 2009.
This report is the annual submission of the greenhouse gas inventory of the European Community to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. It presents greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2006 for EU-27, EU-15, individual Member States and economic sector.
Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund are the European Union's main financial instruments to reduce the gap between poor and rich regions. In its new report, the European Environment Agency evaluates the effectiveness of these funds in achieving environmental goals by focusing on investments in wastewater treatment, biodiversity, and energy efficiency and renewable energy in three pilot countries: Austria, Italy and Spain.
Towards a Transatlantic Green New Deal
A new report written by the Worldwatch Institute for the Heinrich Böll Foundation examines ways in which the current economic downturn is an opportunity to fight climate change while creating quality jobs. Following the report's German launch in Berlin last month, the English version of "Towards a Transatlantic Green New Deal: Tackling the Climate and Economic Crises" was discussed at an event in Washington, D.C.
Diverting Waste from Landfill:
Effectiveness of Waste-Management Policies in the European Union
EEA Report No 7/2009
With landfill at the bottom of the European waste hierarchy, policies to divert waste from landfill play a very important role within European and national waste policies. This report analyses the effectiveness of implemented policies on the diversion of total municipal waste and biodegradable municipal waste from landfill in the context of the 1999 EU Landfill Directive and other relevant directives. The study is based on an in-depth evaluation of policies in five countries and one region of the EU, combined with an analysis of drivers of the generation, landfilling and incineration of municipal waste for 25 EU Member States.
Keke-Foorumi pidettiin 21.04.2009 Tampereessa lisää materiaalia tulossa.
Resource Use in European Countries
by Stephan Moll, Stefan Bringezu and Helmut Schütz
Wuppertal Institute
An estimate of materials and waste streams in the Community, including imports and exports using the instrument of material flow analysis.
The Gothenburg Recommendations for Education for Sustainable Development
The recommendations were developed at a workshop organised by Chalmers and Gothenburg University, with support from the Swedish National Commission for UNESCO, the Swedish Ministry for Education and Research and SWEDESD, Some fifty experts on ESD and policy-makers from around the world participated. The recommendations is one of Sweden's inputs to the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development held in Bonn 31 March-2 April 2009. Read more about the Gothenburg initiative in the publication.
Peak energy: promise or peril?
Will we continue to use fossil fuels to the detriment of our planet and the human population? Or can we clean up our act in time to avoid calamitous change? That's the dilemma the world currently faces, yet in spite of efforts to transition to alterative energy sources, projections show that annual fossil fuel demand is likely to increase 45 per cent by 2030.
Read more: Nature Reports Climate Change
The True Cost of Coal
How people and the planet are paying the price for the world's dirtiest fuel.
Traditionally considered the cheapest fuel around, the market price for coal ignores its most significant impacts. These so-called "external costs" manifests themselves as damages such as respiratory diseases, mining accidents, acid rain, smog pollution, reduced agricultural yields and climate change. The harm caused by mining and burning coal is not reflected in its price per tonne or its costs for a kWh of electricity, but the world at large is nevertheless paying for it. This report by Greenpeace seeks to answer the question: Just how much are we paying?
This report is WWF's periodic update on the state of the world's ecosystems. It describes the changing state of global biodiversity and the pressure on the biosphere arising from human consumption of natural resources. It is built around two indicators:
- the Living Planet Index, which reflects the health of the planet’s ecosystems; and
- the Ecological Footprint, which shows the extent of human demand on these ecosystems.
These measures are tracked over several decades to reveal past trends, then three scenarios explore what might lie ahead.
Books on Sustainability
National
Kasvaminen globaaliin vastuuseen
Yhteiskunnan toimijoiden puheenvuoroja
Opetusministeriön julkaisuja 2008:40 Liisa Rohweder (toim.)
Lukijalle
Julkaisu Kasvaminen globaaliin vastuuseen - yhteiskunnan toimijoiden puheenvuoroja on neljäs teos, joka on tuotettu opetusministeriön keväällä 2007 käynnistämän projektin Kasvaminen maailmanlaajuiseen vastuuseen/ Fostran till globalt ansvar tausta-aineistoksi.
Lue Lisää, minedu.fi, (5.14Mb pdf-file)
ISBN 978-952-485-594-5 (nid.)
ISBN 978-952-485-595-2 (PDF)
ISSN 1458-8110
Harmoni eller konflikt, Sopusointua vai Ristiriitaa?
I rapporten analyserar och sammanfattar lärarutbildare och forskare från olika lärarutbildningsenheter i Finland de faktorer och pedagogiska tillämpningar som bidrar till miljömedvetenhet och inlärning. En av de viktigaste faktorerna är människans förhållande till naturen och naturkontakten. Andra faktorer och teman som behandlas i rapporten är alternativa natursyner, klimatförändring som ett aktuellt miljötema, miljöfostran och hållbar utveckling som begrepp och innehåll från olika personers och gruppers perspektiv samt lokala och globala samarbetsprojekt inom hållbar utveckling.
ISBN 978-952-12-2157-6
Kohti kestävää kehitystä. Pedagoginen lähestymistapa
"Tiivistelmä
Kestävän kehityksen merkitys työelämässä ja siten myös opettajien työssä korostuu tulevaisuudessa. Muun muassa globaali vastuullisuus, ilmastonmuutos, sosiaalisen eriarvoistumisen kysymykset, kulttuurien erilaisuus ja talouden globalisoituminen ovat teemoja, jotka tulee yhä painokkaammin ottaa huomioon tulevaisuuden yhteiskunnassa. Koulutuksen yhtenä tehtävänä on tuottaa osaamista, jolla yhteiskuntaa ja työelämää voidaan näiden kysymysten näkökulmasta kehittää kestävään suuntaan..."
Education for Global Responsibility – Finnish Perspectives
Publications of the Ministry of Education 2007:31
Edited by Taina Kaivola and Monica Melén-Paaso
"Foreword: This publication is the first outcome of the project Education for Global Responsibility launched by the Finnish Ministry of Education in spring 2007. One of the cornerstones of this project is the Global Education 2010 Programme. The project intends to provide a conceptual framework based on science, which the programme still lacks. The broad purpose of the project Education for Global Responsibility is to cover not only the educational system but the whole of Finnish society..."
(Read more, 2.78Mb pdf-file ).
From Sustainable Development to Global Responsibility Monica Melén-Paaso, Councellor for Education, Ministry of Education. Presented at the Joint seminar by the national ESD-resource centre & the UniPID-network Dialogues on sustainable paths for the future: ethics, welfare and responsibility (pdf-file 37kb), 7–8 May 2008, Turku School of Economics
International
The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
by Diane Coyle
In this book economist Diane Coyle gives us a thoughtful, thorough, and somber account of the West’s, and the world’s, ecological and economic problems. Coyle correctly observes that these cannot be divorced from political and social problems; it is not enough to diagnose difficulties and then offer remedies that are politically unachievable. Instead, Coyle offers useful suggestions that might be implemented—if not by current governments then at least by imaginable governments. In doing all this, Coyle has done us a real service. And yet there is an important piece missing from Coyle’s analysis, without which it is hard to envision a way out of our current predicaments.
For more information on the book please see the Solution Journal web site.
Experiences of Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
ed. Walter Leal
This book presents a number of projects, field experiences and initiatives across the African continent, which show the degree of work and effort being put, to adapt to climate change. It is a rich source of information and inspiration to practitioners, member of international organisations, NGOs, aid agencies, Ministries, researchers and anyone interested to know more about the realities of climate change adaptation in Africa.
World on the Edge
How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse
by Lester R. Brown
We are facing issues of near-overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency. Our challenge is to think globally and develop policies to counteract environmental decline and economic collapse. The question is: Can we change direction before we go over the edge?
World on the Edge is published by the Earth Policy Institute.
Drivers and Barriers to Implementing ESD with Focus on UNESCO's Action and Strategy Goals for the Second Half of the Decade
by D. Gross & S. Nakayama
Results of an international survey on UNESCO's goals have been published, performed by German-Japanese cooperation on ESD (NGO). The gained insights isolate those goals which will be most promising in being realized till the end of the Decade.
There are also critical comments on the German and Japanese governmental approaches for the Second Half.
Global Environmental Research, vol. 14, No. 2, 2010, AIRIES, Japan. Education for Sustainable Development: Promises and Challenges.
Guide to Process Based Modeling of Lakes and Coastal Seas
by Anders Omstedt, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden
Mounting concern about the influence of humans on climate and environmental conditions has increased the need for multi-disciplinary modeling efforts, including systems such as oceans, costal seas, lakes, land surfaces, ice, rivers and atmosphere.
For more information please see the publishers web site.
Here on Earth: A new beginning
by Tim Flannery
From the book's back cover:
This is a revolutionary dual biography of the planet and of our species. Flannery reimagines the history of earth, from its earliest origins as a chaotic ball of elemental dust and gases to the teeming landscape we currently call home. It is a remarkable story. How did life first emerge here? What forces have shaped it? Why did humans come to dominate? And when did we start to have an impact? More importantly, how has this changed us as a species?
The awesome hand of nature has never been better portrayed than in this book. Nor, remarkably, the transformative power of ideas. From the most intense competition for survival, cooperation has emerged. The challenge we now face is to sustain our fragile hold on life.
For more information see the publishers web site.
Climate Wars: The fight for survival as the World overheats
by Gwynne Dyer
From one of the world’s great geopolitical analysts, a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future, when climate change will force the world’s powers into a desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.
Dwindling resources. Massive population shifts. Natural disasters. Spreading epidemics. Drought. Rising sea levels. Plummeting agricultural yields. Crashing economies. Political extremism. These are some of the expected consequences of runaway climate change in the decades ahead, and any of them could tip the world towards conflict. Prescient, unflinching, and based on exhaustive research and interviews, Climate Wars promises to be one of the most important books of the coming years.
For more information see the publishers web site.
Innovative Corporate Social Responsibility
eds: Prof. Walter Leal Filho (BUP, Germany), Dr Celine Louche (Belgium) and Dr Samuel Idowu (UK)
This book has been listed among the 2010 Top 40 Sustainability Books by the University of Cambridge.
The Sustainable Self
A Personal Approach to Sustainability Education
by Paul Murray
Achieving a sustainable society is the biggest issue of our time. It is not an issue confined to a particular subject area or to certain jobs. It is a way of thinking and behaving that will need to be embedded in all aspects of all of our lives.
The Sustainable Self is the perfect resource for lecturers, trainers, students and professionals of any discipline who need to teach or learn about sustainability. There is widespread agreement that we need to live more sustainable lives. But when up against entrenched habits and everyday obstacles, it can be difficult to turn good intentions into action.
This book presents a complete ‘curriculum’ for effecting a personal transformation towards sustainability, showing you how to align your personal and professional actions with your values and beliefs.
Full of activities that can be done individually or in groups, it is supported by additional resources online including downloadable worksheets and directories of sustainability organisations. Recommended readings at the end of each chapter enable readers to pursue areas of personal or professional interest.
Nature and Sustainability
An Educational Study with Rousseau and Foucault
by Lili-Ann Wolf
The human impact on the natural world is unsustainable, and the tendency to assign education the role of remedying the problem is increasing. However, since sustainability touches fundamentals of human life on many levels, effective education becomes a challenge. This book gives a historical and philosophical view of education that deals with nature and sustainability and highlights the ethical dilemmas that arise if we expect education to be the main promoter of sustainability. Lili-Ann Wolff discusses these issues by drawing from two of the most notable scholars in the Western intellectual tradition, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Michel Foucault. Rousseau's writings offer excellent examples of the role of both ethics and education in dealing with sustainability. And Foucault sets the stage for understanding such fundamental ethical and educational issues as matters of power that act in complex networks on both individual and social levels. The book meets the needs and interests of a diverse audience from educational, environmental and philosophical disciplines, but also many other readers having an interest in contemporary discussions about education, sustainability and nature.
Engineering Education and Sustainable Development
A Guide to Rapid Curriculum Renewal in Higher Education
by Cheryl Desha and Karlson 'Charlie' Hargroves
This book is a practical guide for tertiary education institutions to quickly and effectively renew the curriculum towards education for sustainable development.
The book begins by exploring why curriculum change has been so slow. It then describes a model for rapid curriculum renewal, highlighting the important roles of setting timeframes, formal and informal leadership, and key components and action strategies. The second part of the book provides detailed coverage of six core elements that have been trialled and peer reviewed by institutions around the world:
- raising awareness among staff and students
- mapping graduate attributes
- auditing the curriculum
- developing niche degrees, flagship courses and fully integrated programs
- engaging and catalysing community and student markets
- integrating curriculum with green campus operations
An Introduction to Sustainable Resource Use
by Callum Hill
This book explores the challenges our society faces in making the transition to renewable resource use in a way that is truly sustainable - environmentally, economically and socially.
Suitable for under- and postgraduate courses on environmental limits and resource use, and continuing professional development - particularly resource management, materials, industrial ecology, energy, resource economics and engineering.
Tomorrow Today
A book by Irina Bokova that is a mid-decade review of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD).
The DESD mid-decade review presents four main areas of action as laid out in the Strategy for the second half of DESD and the outcomes from the UNESCO World Conference on ESD (Bonn, Germany 2009), namely; enhancing synergies with educational and development initiatives; developing and strengthening capacities for ESD; building, sharing and applying ESD-related knowledge and advocating ESD and increasing awareness and understanding of the importance of sustainability..
The 23rd November 2010, the London-based publisher Earthscan will release new, updated editions of Alan AtKisson’s classic books BELIEVING CASSANDRA and THE SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION.
The new edition of BELIEVING CASSANDRA includes a stirring new Foreword by Paul Hawken, who calls the book “erudite” and “exceptionally readable” and likens it to a “neurotransmitter” that helps signal the way for forward to a sustainable future. This beautiful new edition also includes fully updated global data, new case studies and examples, as well updates to the memorable anecdotes and diary entries that AtKisson uses to help make sustainability both more personal, and more understandable. The new material in BELIEVING CASSANDRA draws on an additional decade of experience, including work for the United Nations leading up to and including the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009.
In THE SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION, AtKisson and Earthscan have taken the successful 2008 hardback “The ISIS Agreement” and repackaged it in a beautiful paperback edition, with a new preface, a new cover, and even a new title. THE SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION has become a widely adopted text in sustainability training programs, and the new preface helps to guide professionals and students — as well as general interest readers — to those parts of the book that they will find most immediately useful. Renowned writer, editor, and climate activist Bill McKibben has called THE SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION “beyond useful — it’s necessary, rigorous, comprehensive, unsentimental, and yet highly readable, even moving.”
For more information see the AtKisson Group or Earthscan web sites.
Requiem for a Species
Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change
by Clive Hamilton
This book does not set out once more to raise the alarm to encourage us to take radical measures to head off climate chaos. There have been any number of books and reports in recent years explaining just how dire the future looks and how little time we have left to act.
This book is about why we have ignored those warnings, and why it may now be too late. It is a book about the frailties of the human species as expressed in both the institutions we built and the psychological dispositions that have led us on the path of self-destruction. It is about our strange obsessions, our hubris, and our penchant for avoiding the facts. It is the story of a battle within us between the forces that should have caused us to protect the Earth - our capacity to reason and our connection to Nature - and those that, in the end, have won out - our greed, materialism and alienation from Nature. And it is about the 21st century consequences of these failures.
Sustainability Education
Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education
Eds. Paula Jones, David Selby and Stephen Sterling
How do we equip learners with the values, knowledge, skills, and motivation to help achieve economic, social and ecological well-being? How can universities make a major contribution towards a more sustainable future? Amid rising expectations on HE from professional associations, funders, policy makers, and undergraduates, and increasing interest amongst academics and senior management, a growing number of higher education institutions are taking the lead in embracing sustainability. This response does not only include greening the campus but also transforming curricula and teaching and learning.
This book explains why this is necessary and - crucially - how to do it.
Sustainability at Universities - Opportunities, Challenges and Trends
ed. Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DL, DPhil, DLitt, FLS FIBiol, FRGS)
Peter Lang Scientific Publishers, New York, December 2009
ISBN 9783631596906, 340 pp.
Sustainability is widely defined as "the ability to meet the needs of the present while living within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems and without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". However, the goal of managing today's resources so that they may be available to future generations is not easy to reach. Indeed, in order to achieve this ambitious goal, it is important that universities -- similar to other sectors of society- become engaged in the sustainability debate, not superficially as it has largely been the case until now, but in a manner not seen before.
Higher Education and Sustainable Development
Paradox and Possibility
by Stephen Gough and William Scott
This book examines whether it is actually possible to mandate, plan, monitor and evaluate the higher education sector’s route to the production of educated, innovative, independent, self-determining, critical individuals while at the same time achieving a range of wider policy goals on the side. This book examines this question in the context of a particular international policy issue – sustainable development – which is now seen across the globe as a necessary and urgent response to a range of social and environmental issues that threaten the integrity of the biosphere and human well being. The book concludes that the idea of sustainable development holds both opportunities and dangers for universities as they pursue their proper role in a free society.
This book is about how school and university students experience and respond to learning activities concerned with environmental issues. While the learning demands associated with sustainable development become ever greater and more complex, our understandings of the nature and dynamics of such learning are in their early infancy. Environmental education and education for sustainable development have become features of many countries’ formal education systems, but very little is known about what such provision looks and feels like for the learners concerned. The aim of this book is to bring learners and their experiences to the centre of current debates about environmental education and education for sustainable development. By exploring the real-time actions, interactions and interpretations of individual learners in various environmental learning situations, we show how insights from research into the student experience can provide powerful pointers for future practice, policy and research. The last 4 decades have seen growing international recognition for the educational dimensions of environmental and sustainable development issues. Since the late 1960s, international statements from organisations such as the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) and UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) have called for environmental problems to be tackled through environmental education for all age groups. The 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm declared that: ‘education in environmental matters, for the younger generation as well as adults […] is essential’ (United Nation 1972).
Debating Climate Change
by Elizabeth L. Malone
As greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated and contentious voices fill the air, the question gains urgency: How can people with widely varying viewpoints agree to address climate change? Each participant in the debate seems to have a different agenda, from protecting economic growth in developing countries to protecting the energy industry in industrialized countries, from those aghast at the damage done to the Earth to optimists who think we just need to adjust our technological approach.
Debating Climate Change sorts through the tangle of arguments surrounding climate change to find paths to unexpected sites of agreement. Using an innovative sociological approach - combined discourse and social network analyses - Elizabeth L. Malone analyzes 100 documents representing a range of players in this high-stakes debate. Through this she shows how even the most implacable adversaries can find common ground - and how this common ground can be used to build agreement.
Written in a clear, accessible style, this original research and insightful use of communication analysis will help advance understanding and negotiation on climate change throughout the pivotal times to come.
This far-reaching and authoritative two-volume set examines a range of potential solutions for low-energy building design, considering different strategies (energy conservation and renewable energy) and technologies (relating to the building envelope, ventilation, heat delivery, heat production, heat storage, electricity and control). Energy and life-cycle impacts are considered as crucial factors, including passive and active solar use, daylighting and high efficiency conventional heat production. Each volume assesses the potential of these options in a variety of contexts, covering different housing types (apartment, row and detached) in cold, temperate and mild climates. The impressive list of expert authors from 14 countries includes a mix of internationally respected academics and practitioners, working together within the framework of a five-year International Energy Agency (IEA) research project.
Volume 1 presents strategies and solutions, offering the reader a solid basis for developing concepts, considering environmental and economic concerns for housing projects in a variety of contexts.
Volume 2 offers a detailed analysis of exemplary buildings in different European countries and examines the various technologies employed to achieve their remarkable performance. Aided by clear, full colour illustrations, it offers invaluable insights into the application of these technologies.
100% Renewable - Energy Autonomy in Action
ed Peter Droege
The greatest challenge of our time is to build a world based on the sustainable use of renewable power. Our massive dependence on fossil fuels has upset the very climatic system that made human evolution possible. The global economy and its financial system are in jeopardy, running hot on overtly cheap yet increasingly costly and fast depleting oil. A 100% renewable world is seen by many as an impossible dream in anything but the very long term. But not only do a growing number of initiatives and plans dare to make the change but many have already achieved it.
This rich collection presents a series of pioneering efforts and their champions, and the paths to their successes. Ranging from initiatives by individuals to visions for companies, communities and entire countries, it defeats tired economic and technical counter-arguments, showing how the schemes featured not only can and do work but do so economically and with available technology. The book is introduced by incisive writing by Peter Droege, explaining the challenges and framing a roadmap towards a 100% renewable reality.
Sustainability Networks - Cognitive Tools for Expert Collaboration in Social-Ecological Systems
by Janne Hukkinen
Sustainability is a word that means different things depending on who is using it, thus underlining the potential problems involved in experts from different fields teaming up to tackle sustainability problems. In this book, Janne Hukkinen argues for a reflexive approach to sustainability as a means of coming to grips with the threatening challenges arising out of human-environment interaction. The author illustrates his argument with a case study of natural resource management in Lapland, showing how sustainability is understood holistically by academics and professionals alike.
This book reflects an emerging cognitive turn in sustainability sciences, conceptualizing environmental challenges during action on our social and material environments, rather than in isolation. Hukkinen argues that this conceptual blending enables sustainability experts to hybridize themselves: to immerse themselves in the fields of other experts and imagine the other's work - both prerequisites of trans-disciplinary knowledge integration. This book shows how sustainability experts can reveal their intellectual engagements when designing scenarios and indicators and presents a rigorous framework for organizing expert collaboration.
Nätbaserad utbildning - en introduktion
av Stefan Hrastinski
Författaren ger många praktiska tips samtidigt som läsaren uppmuntras till egna reflektioner. Förutom en översikt av aktuella forskningsresultat återges en mängd kortare intervjuer med personer som arbetar med och forskar om nätbaserad utbildning.
Over 50 full-colour world maps and graphics break down hardcore statistics to provide a compelling analysis of all the political, social, economic and ecological nightmares that keep us awake at night.
- The world's car population has grown five times as fast as the human population ver the last 50 years.
- Wal-Mart's sales revenue exceeds the GDP of 150 countries.
- Climate change may put 2.7 billion at risk of armed conflict.
- Germany generates more tourists than anywhere else.
- Americans use 160 times more water than people in Rwanda.
If you want to get behind the headlines and understand the world - from urbanization to globalization, terrorism to tourism, military spending to human rights - The State of the World Atlas is unmatched.
Perspectives to Global Social Development
ed. Mikko Perkiö
This book is based on a UniPID Virtual Course "Perspectives to Global Social Development" lecture series, coordinated by the University of Tampere. It has been funded by Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in order to inform the public about development issues. This book concerns human well-being in the global context focusing on the economically less developed regions known as the Global South. Social Development combines a multidisciplinary approach of development studies with concepts of social sciences.
The ISIS Agreement
How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World
Renowned business and sustainability consultant Alan AtKisson distils decades of wisdom and experience into this highly readable and motivational work. Covering theory and practice, obstacles and opportunities, case studies and poignant personal anecdotes, The ISIS Agreement draws the reader ever deeper into a global 'conspiracy of hope.'
The core of the book is AtKisson's potent Accelerator, adopted for use in dozens of countries by business, governments, and organizations such as UNEP. A comprehensive toolkit that helps integrate sustainability into organizations, initiatives and plans, it can be used by any group, organization, business, community or region, in virtually any context. Central to the Accelerator is the potent ISIS (Indicators, Systems, Innovation, Strategy) method that teaches leaders how to create a whole-systems view of their organization, to identify and understand blockages and opportunities, and to leverage the potential for innovative change that adds value and accelerates progress towards sustainability.
The Skeptical Economist
Revealing the Ethics Inside Economics
Economics is unavoidably central to any attempt to improve our quality of life, but most people do not know why, or how to question its underlying assumptions.
The Skeptical Economist rejects the story told by other popular economics books. Responding to Western malaise about quality of life, and a growing curiosity about economics and its relevance to these concerns, Jonathan Aldred argues that economics is not an agreed body of knowledge or an objective science. In reality economics is built on ethical foundations - distinctive and controversial views about how we ought to live, what we value, and why. This revealing and entertaining book exposes these hidden assumptions, and opens up the black box of modern economics to reveal that conventional wisdom is not what it appears to be.
The Skeptical Economist will challenge us all to examine the assumptions behind the economics of our current way of life. It re-discovers the ethics at the heart of economics.
The Ecology of Learning
Sustainability, Lifelong Learning and Everyday Life
Your house is flooded by 'unseasonal' heavy rain. What do you learn from this experience? Do you shrug your shoulders and call your insurer? Or do you choose to learn about climate change, switch to renewable energy and lobby politicians? In this insightful book, John Blewitt explores the possibilities for developing a sustainable society through 'lifelong learning' – that is, learning that happens in everyday environments and activities as diverse as shopping, community, 'edutainment', information and communication technology, the internet, broadcasting, people's experience of place and space, green building, social networks and consumer culture.
Drawing on a range of sociological, anthropological and educational studies as well as new research, The Ecology of Learning is ideal for educators, teachers, corporate trainers and consultants working to integrate environmental education, sustainability and innovation in non-traditional learning situations. The coverage is extensive, with an accessible but informed engagement with both theory and practice and a wide range of examples. Throughout, the voices, stories and experiences of many people are used to illustrate the ways people may reshape our understanding of learning and sustainability.
To date, international attention has focused primarily on the industrial and energy sectors. However, the agriculture, forestry, and land use sector is a major driver of the climate change problem and, thus, must be an integral part of the solution. In this wide-ranging volume, international experts explain the links between climate change and forests, highlighting the potential role of this sector within emerging climate policy frameworks and carbon markets.
After framing forestry activities within the larger context of climate-change policy, the contributors analyze the operation and efficacy of market-based mechanisms for forest conservation and climate change. Drawing on project examples from around the world, the authors present concrete recommendations for policymakers, project developers, and market participants. They discuss sequestration rights in Chile, carbon offset programs in Australia and New Zealand, and emerging policy incentives at all levels of the U.S. government. The book also explores the different voluntary schemes for carbon crediting, provides an overview of carbon accounting best practices, and presents tools for use in future sequestration and offset programs. It concludes by considering a range of incentive options for slowing deforestation and protecting the world’s remaining forests.
Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity
Science, Ethics, Economics and Law
Ecosystems have been compared to a house of cards: remove or damage a part and you risk destroying or fundamentally and irreversibly altering the whole. Protecting ecological integrity means maintaining that whole - an aim which is increasingly difficult to achieve given the ever-growing dominance of humanity. This book is the definitive examination of the state of the field now, and the way things may (and must) develop in the future.
Written and edited by members of the Global Ecological Integrity Group - an international collection of the world’s most respected authorities in the area - the book considers the extent to which human rights (such as the rights to food, energy, health, clean air or water) can be reconciled with the principles of ecological integrity. The issue is approached from a variety of economic, legal, ethical and ecological standpoints, providing an essential resource for researchers, students and those in government or business in a wide range of disciplines.
Sustainability Indicators
Measuring the Immeasurable?
Second Edition
They examine the origins and development of Systemic Sustainability Analysis (SSA) as a theoretical approach to sustainability which has been developed in practice in a number of countries on an array of projects since the first edition. They look at how SSA has evolved into the practical approaches of Systemic Prospective Sustainability Analysis (SPSA) and IMAGINE, and, in particular, how a wide range of participatory methodologies have been adopted over the years. They also provide an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of projects that undertake work in the general field of sustainable development.
Understanding Sustainable Development
This powerful new textbook, by a topic instructor in the field, is the first to unravel sustainable development and provide readers with the deep understanding so often missing in other texts. The book adopts a multi-perspective approach designed specifically to allow access to the topic from a wide range of educational and professional backgrounds and to develop understanding of a diversity of approaches and traditions at different levels. It features multiple entry points, explains jargon and explores controversies. Also offering boxed examples from the local to the global, Understanding Sustainable Development is the most complete guide to the subject for course leaders, students and self-learners.
The Principles of Sustainability
Second Edition
This new fully revised edition covers the latest on the climate change front, particularly the advances in scientific understanding and political awareness of climate change. Other updates include more recent economic analyses, particularly the Stern Report, and the global shift away from faith in markets over the past five years.
The Power of Sustainable Thinking
How to Create a Positive Future for the Climate, the Planet, Your Organization and Your Life
The future will be powered by sustainable thinking in business, organizations, governments and everyday life.
This revolutionary book tackles climate change, sustainability and life success by starting with your mind. It provides proven ‘staged-based’ methods for transforming thinking and behaviour, beginning first with the reader’s own cognitive patterns, then moving to how individuals can motivate other people to change, and finally to how teams and organizations can be motivated to change.
Understanding Sustainability Economics - Towards Pluralism in Economics
by Peter Söderbaum
August 2008
Hardback, 160 pages, ISBN: 9781844076260
The book provides a brief history of economics and looks at the intersection between politics and the often hidden values embedded in economics. Also covered are the roles of individuals and organizations, political structures and institutions, democracy, environmental decision-making, sustainability assessment and a vision of a future underpinned by sustainability economics. A main point raised is that, in any serious attempt to come to grips with unsustainable trends, fundamental issues such as the theory of science, the role of science in society, paradigms in economics, ideological orientations and institutional arrangements need to be critically examined. The theory is supported by case studies, explanatory figures, further reading sections and discussion questions to facilitate debate and learning.
SD & ESD Publishers and Libraries
Earthscan
Publishing for a Sustainable Future
Earthscan is the leading publisher in English on climate change, sustainable development and environmental technology for academic and professional, and also policy and general readers. The aim is to publish original, reliable and significant work that helps to foster the conditions for genuine sustainability by providing the means for understanding and analysing the issues and the tools for resolving them.
Earthscan was originally founded by the International Institute for Environment and Development in 1987, and continue to publish in association with them and in partnership with a range of environmental and development organizations world wide. It is an independent company and the books and journals are distributed throughout the world.
Founded in 1967 as an offshoot of the University of Bradford, Emerald Group Publishing has become the world’s leading scholarly publisher of journals and books in business and management with a strong and growing presence in disciplines including LIS, social sciences, engineering, linguistics and audiology.
Greenleaf Publishing is a fully independent publisher specialising in corporate responsibility, business ethics, environmental policy and management, future business strategy and practice, and sustainable development.
ESD Sverige - Referenslista aktuell litteratur.
A list on current literature on the teaching of Sustainable Development, mostly in Swedish. The list is maintained by the Swedish WWF.
The University of Cambridge Sustainability Bookshelf.
In 2009, Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, CPSL surveyed its alumni to generate a list of the most noteworthy and influential sustainability books of the last fifty years, a list later published as the The Top 50 Sustainability Books. For The State of Sustainability Leadership 2011 we invited our staff and Senior Associates to identify the most significant books of the past 12 months. In this article, Dr Wayne Visser, CEO of CSR International and Visiting Professor of Social Responsibility at Manheim University, Germany, comments on the new list comparing the emerging themes from 2010 with the earlier Top 50 listing.
Climate Change Reference Guide and Glossary
from State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World
by World Watch Institute
BUP Library of sustainability books
This library contains some books on sustainability, sustainable development and education for sustainable development that we have found interesting.
Internet Resources
Some web sites on education for sustainable development (ESD).
Education & Research
- Academic Ranking of World U...
- An Agenda 21 for Education ...
- Baltic Sea Transparencies
- Bogs in the Classroom
- Bologna Process and Europea...
- Changing Education Paradigms
- Classroom Clipart
- CO2nnect
- Codex
- Database of Wind Characteri...
- Directory of Open Access Jo...
- Discovery Education Classro...
- DIY Science - Ecosphere
- Earthguide
- EarthTrends
- European Commission: Educat...
- Facing the Future
- Fun Science Gallery
- GeoHive: Global Statistics
- Global Education Project
- Globalis
- Helcom: The Lord of the Things
- Hot Potatoes
- International Directory on ...
- Intute: Social Sciences
- Java Climate Model
- JSTOR
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for E...
- OpenCourseWare Consortium
- Population Reference Bureau
- ProSus
- Science and Society
- Sites for Teachers
- Sustainable Cities Research...
- TeAch-nology
- Teachers First
- The Corporation Film
- UNIS - The University Centr...
- University of California Co...
- UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland
- Worldwatch University
Sustainable Development
- AllAfrica Foundation
- Development Gateway Portal
- Earth Charter Initiative
- Earth Summit 2012: Vision, ...
- Eco-Management and Audit Sc...
- Ecological Footprint Quiz
- EH&S Management Systems Center
- EU as Global Actor (ESD)
- European Union Eco-label
- Factor 10 Institute
- Forum on Science and Innova...
- Half! A Simple Way to Make ...
- International Institute for...
- Nordic Ecolabel
- Paint for the Planet
- People & the Planet
- SciDev.Net
- SD Gateway
- Sustainable Business
- Sustainable Cities
- Sustainable Development Ind...
- Sustainable Development Int...
- Sustainable seafood: Consum...
- The Prospect of Sustainable...
- The Prospect of Sustainable...
- The Story of Stuff
- The World Wide Web Virtual ...
- TVLink Europe
- World Population Clock
SD and ESD Publications
National
Kasvaminen globaaliin vastuuseen
Yhteiskunnan toimijoiden puheenvuoroja
Opetusministeriön julkaisuja 2008:40 Liisa Rohweder (toim.)
Lukijalle
Julkaisu Kasvaminen globaaliin vastuuseen - yhteiskunnan toimijoiden puheenvuoroja on neljäs teos, joka on tuotettu opetusministeriön keväällä 2007 käynnistämän projektin Kasvaminen maailmanlaajuiseen vastuuseen/ Fostran till globalt ansvar tausta-aineistoksi.
Lue Lisää, minedu.fi, (5.14Mb pdf-file)
ISBN 978-952-485-594-5 (nid.)
ISBN 978-952-485-595-2 (PDF)
ISSN 1458-8110
Harmoni eller konflikt, Sopusointua vai Ristiriitaa?
I rapporten analyserar och sammanfattar lärarutbildare och forskare från olika lärarutbildningsenheter i Finland de faktorer och pedagogiska tillämpningar som bidrar till miljömedvetenhet och inlärning. En av de viktigaste faktorerna är människans förhållande till naturen och naturkontakten. Andra faktorer och teman som behandlas i rapporten är alternativa natursyner, klimatförändring som ett aktuellt miljötema, miljöfostran och hållbar utveckling som begrepp och innehåll från olika personers och gruppers perspektiv samt lokala och globala samarbetsprojekt inom hållbar utveckling.
ISBN 978-952-12-2157-6
Kohti kestävää kehitystä. Pedagoginen lähestymistapa
"Tiivistelmä
Kestävän kehityksen merkitys työelämässä ja siten myös opettajien työssä korostuu tulevaisuudessa. Muun muassa globaali vastuullisuus, ilmastonmuutos, sosiaalisen eriarvoistumisen kysymykset, kulttuurien erilaisuus ja talouden globalisoituminen ovat teemoja, jotka tulee yhä painokkaammin ottaa huomioon tulevaisuuden yhteiskunnassa. Koulutuksen yhtenä tehtävänä on tuottaa osaamista, jolla yhteiskuntaa ja työelämää voidaan näiden kysymysten näkökulmasta kehittää kestävään suuntaan..."
Education for Global Responsibility – Finnish Perspectives
Publications of the Ministry of Education 2007:31
Edited by Taina Kaivola and Monica Melén-Paaso
"Foreword: This publication is the first outcome of the project Education for Global Responsibility launched by the Finnish Ministry of Education in spring 2007. One of the cornerstones of this project is the Global Education 2010 Programme. The project intends to provide a conceptual framework based on science, which the programme still lacks. The broad purpose of the project Education for Global Responsibility is to cover not only the educational system but the whole of Finnish society..." (Read more, 2.78Mb pdf-file )
From Sustainable Development to Global Responsibility
Monica Melén-Paaso, Councellor for Education, Ministry of Education. Presented at the Joint seminar by the national ESD-resource centre & the UniPID-network Dialogues on sustainable paths for the future: ethics, welfare and responsibility (pdf-file 37kb), 7–8 May 2008, Turku School of Economics
International
The new edition of BELIEVING CASSANDRA includes a stirring new Foreword by Paul Hawken, who calls the book “erudite” and “exceptionally readable” and likens it to a “neurotransmitter” that helps signal the way for forward to a sustainable future. This beautiful new edition also includes fully updated global data, new case studies and examples, as well updates to the memorable anecdotes and diary entries that AtKisson uses to help make sustainability both more personal, and more understandable. The new material in BELIEVING CASSANDRA draws on an additional decade of experience, including work for the United Nations leading up to and including the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009.
In THE SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION, AtKisson and Earthscan have taken the successful 2008 hardback “The ISIS Agreement” and repackaged it in a beautiful paperback edition, with a new preface, a new cover, and even a new title. THE SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION has become a widely adopted text in sustainability training programs, and the new preface helps to guide professionals and students — as well as general interest readers — to those parts of the book that they will find most immediately useful. Renowned writer, editor, and climate activist Bill McKibben has called THE SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION “beyond useful — it’s necessary, rigorous, comprehensive, unsentimental, and yet highly readable, even moving.”
For more information on both books see the AtKisson Group or Earthscan web sites.
Earthscan: Publishing for a sustainable future
Earthscan is the leading publisher in English on climate change, sustainable development and environmental technology for academic and professional, and also policy and general readers. The aim is to publish original, reliable and significant work that helps to foster the conditions for genuine sustainability by providing the means for understanding and analysing the issues and the tools for resolving them.
Earthscan was originally founded by the International Institute for Environment and Development in 1987, and continue to publish in association with them and in partnership with a range of environmental and development organizations world wide. It is an independent company and the books and journals are distributed throughout the world.
ESD Sverige - Referenslista aktuell litteratur.
A list on current literature on the teaching of Sustainable Development, mostly in Swedish. The list is maintained by the Swedish WWF.
MEdIES
MEDIES (Mediterranean Education Initiative for Environment & Sustainability, with an emphasis on water and waste) is a Type II initiative that was launched during the WSSD in Johannesburg. This initiative/partnership on Education for Environment and Sustainability (EfES)- as the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) was called for a short time after the Thessaloniki Conference (1997)- facilitates the educational community and students to contribute in a systematic and concrete way for the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Millennium Declaration goals, through the successful application of innovative Educational Programmes in countries around the Mediterranean basin.
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