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Promoting education for sustainable development in China
1 UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, held from Mar. 31 to Apr. 2, 2009 in
Bonn, Germany.
2 Xiaoya, Chen (2008). Practice of Education for Sustainable Development in China, Beijing Publishing House, Beijing.
3 Jie, Luo and others (2008). Introducing Education for Sustainable Development in Our Schools. Educational Sciences
Publishing House, Beijing.
4 UNESCO Senior Working Group and the International Implementation Plan of the UN Decade of Educational for
Sustainable Development (2005-2014), January 2005.
5 Gendong, Shi and Guiying, Wang (2009). Basic ESD Course. Educational Science Publishing House, Beijing.
6 Gendong, Shi (2005). Promote sustainable development: vital mission of new century’. Education Research, Beijing.
7 Gendong, Shi (May 2010). Education for sustainable development enlightens school teaching in new age.
Education Research, Beijing.
8 Long, Shi (January 2010). For China’s educational reform of sustainable development’. Educational Science
Research, p. 6, Beijing.
9 Li, Zhang (2006). China’s Education and Sustainable Development . Sciences Publishing House, Beijing.
10 Tiedao, Zhang (2009). Practicing Education for Sustainable Development in Discipline Teaching (Primary School edition) ,
Educational Science Publishing House, Beijing.
11 Xinsheng, Zhang (2006). Promote Education for Sustainable Development under Guidance of Scientific Development
Viewpoint. Educational Science Publishing House, Beijing.
Establishing enriched learning in Japan: participation and partnership
1 Eleven ministries and agencies were involved in the Interministerial Meeting in Japan: Cabinet Secretariat, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Ministry of the Environment,
Cabinet Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and (as
observers) Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
ASEAN higher education and sustainable development
1 United States National Research Council, Policy Division, Board on Sustainable Development (1999). Our
Common Journey: A Transition toward Sustainability. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999.
2 There is evidence that a population with guaranteed access to health care and education, even with relatively low
income, have comparatively better results in terms of the length and quality of life of the entire population. Sen,
Amartya (1999). Beyond the crisis: development strategies in Asia. In Sustainable Development and Human Security:
Second Intellectual Dialogue on Building Asia’s Tomorrow. Pamela J. Noda, ed. Tokyo, Japan: Center for International
Exchange, 1999, pp 15-37.
3 The Sufficiency Economy philosophy initiated by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej emphasized sustainable
development, sound macroeconomic policies and the equitable sharing of economic prosperity. The Sufficiency
Economy philosophy framework comprises three components and two underlying conditions. First, Sufficiency
entails three components: Moderation, Reasonableness, and a requirement for a Self-immunity System, i.e. the
ability to cope with shocks from internal and external changes. Second, two underlying conditions necessary to
achieve Sufficiency are Knowledge and Morality. Piboolsravut, P. (2004). Sufficiency Economy. ASEAN Economic
Bulletin , 2004, pp. 127-134.
4 Retrieved 2 September 2010.
5 The Meetings of Directors General/ Secretaries General/ Commissioners of Higher Education in Southeast Asia
were launched for the first time in 2005 and continue today. The objective of the Meetings is to establish a formal
venue for high-ranking higher education officials in the region to refresh information, review the progress of the
projects/programmes and explore the possibility of future collaboration on higher education. SEAMEO Regional
Centre for Higher Education and Development (SEAMEO RIHED), Report of the Fourth Meeting of Directors
General/ Secretaries General/ Commissioners on Higher Education in Southeast Asian Region, 2010, pp. 4-9.
6 The Office of Higher Education Commission, Thailand, in collaboration with SEAMEO RIHED, has been in
the process of preparing the Research Cluster Exploration Conference which is scheduled to be convened in
November 2010. SEAMEO RIHED. Report of the 18th SEAMEO RIHED Governing Board Meeting, 2010.
7 Kaivola, T. and Rohweder, L., eds. Towards Sustainable Development in Higher Education – Reflections . Finland:
Ministry of Education, 2007, pp 111.
Further references
- ASEAN (2009). Roadmap for an ASEAN Community 2009-2015. Jakarta: ASEAN Secretariat.
- Elias, D. and Wagner-Gamble, K. Education in Sustainable Development within the Asia-Pacific Region .
- Kaivola, T. and Rohweder, L., eds. Towards Sustainable Development in Higher Education – Reflections . Finland:
Ministry of Education, 2007, pp 111.
- McKeown,R. Education forSustainableDevelopmentToolkit. July2002.Retrieved27August2010 from
- SEAMEO RIHED (2008). Harmonisation of Higher Education: Lessons Learned from the Bologna Process. Bangkok,
Thailand: SEAMEO RIHED.
- SEAMEO RIHED (2009). Raising Awareness: Exploring the Ideas of Creating Higher Education Common Space in
Southeast Asia, 2009. Conference proceedings, Bangkok, Thailand: SEAMEO RIHED.
- SEAMEO RIHED (2009). Report of the Fourth Meeting of Directors General/ Secretaries General/ Commissioners on
Higher Education in Southeast Asian Region, 2010, pp. 4-9.
- SEAMEO RIHED (2010). Report of the 18th SEAMEO RIHED Governing Board Meeting, 2010.
- Sen, A. (1999). Beyond the crisis: development Strategies in Asia. In Sustainable Development and Human Security:
Second Intellectual Dialogue on Building Asia’s Tomorrow. Pamela J. Noda, ed. Tokyo, Japan: Center for International
Exchange, pp. 15-37.
- UNESCO (2006). Higher Education in South-East Asia. Bangkok, Thailand: the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional
Bureau for Education, 2006.
- U.S. National Research Council, Policy Division, Board on Sustainable Development. Our Common Journey: A
Transition toward Sustainability. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999.
- Retrieved 2 September 2010 from
Developing informed fishing communities in South Asia
1 Yugraj Singh Yadava and Nasiruddin Md Humayun (2009). Report of the National Workshop on Monitoring,
Control and Surveillance in Marine Fisheries, Bangladesh BOBP/REP/110. p.104.
2 Government of India (2005). Report of the National Marine Fisheries Census, 2005.
3 Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture, Government of Maldives (2006). Fisheries Statistics, 2006.
4 Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Government of Sri Lanka (2007). Basic Fisheries Information
(Marine Fisheries) – 2007 Estimates.
5 BOBP-IGO (2009). Report on the survey of fisher communities in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Safety at Sea Survey
in Cox’s Bazar.
6 Government of India (2005). Report of the National Marine Fisheries Census, 2005.
7 Government of Maldives (2006). National Census Report, Ministry of Planning and National Development.
8 FAO Fishery and Aquaculture Country Profile – Sri Lanka. Available from
FI-CP_LK/en.
9 United Nations Development Programmes, Human Development Reports (various issues). Available from http://
10 Haglund Heelas, A. (1992). Voice of Maldives – using the airwaves to reach scattered communities.Bay of Bengal
News, vol. 1, no. 47, September 1992. pp. 28-29.
11 Yugraj Singh Yadava (2007). Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries – taking it far and wide.Bay of Bengal
News, vol. 4, no. 12, June 2007, pp.2-4.
12 Rathin, R. (1995). Encouraging fisherfolk to manage their fisheries – how awareness and communication can
help.Bay of Bengal News, vol. 2, no. 1, September 1995, pp. 4-8.
Let’s take care of the planet: education for sustainable societies
1 Available from and
2 Available from
3 Available from
From activists to the inclusion of ESD in the education system: progress and challenges still to be faced
1 Independent, not-for-profit organization with an international membership. Available from
2 Visit the site (or or , which sets out the criteria a project must
satisfy to be recognized as a ‘Decade Activity’ in Switzerland.
3 Education still falls largely within the remit of the cantons.
4 For details of this project, see: and for the results: Kyburz-Graber,
R., Nagel, U., Odermatt, F., Zug, F., eds. (2010).Handeln statt hoffen: Materialien zur Bildung für Nachhaltige
Entwicklung für die Sekundarstufe. Klett & Balmer Verlag., Zug.
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6 UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development – Moving into the Second Half of the UN
Decade, 31 March to 2 April 2009, Bonn, Germany.
Sweden’s pioneering role in education for sustainable development
1 Rockström, J. and others, A safe operating space for humanity. Nature, 24 September 2009, pp. 461 and 472-
475, identifies nine critical interlinked planetary boundaries. Respecting these boundaries is a precondition for
human development.
2 The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (also known as the Stockholm Conference), held
in Stockholm, Sweden from 5-16 June 1972, was the UN’s first major conference on international environmental
issues.
3 Including the Stockholm Resilience Centre, The Stockholm Environment Institute, the Gothenburg Centre for
Environment and Sustainability (GMV) and many others.
4 Sida, formerly known as Swedish Agency for International Development Assistance, works according to the
directives of the Swedish Parliament and Government to reduce poverty in the world. The overall goal of Swedish
development cooperation is to contribute to making it possible for poor people to improve their living conditions.
5 ESD in Formal Education (2001-ongoing); ESD in Formal Education – China (2004-2009); ESD in Higher
Education (2008-ongoing); ESD in a River Basin Context (2008-2009).
6 Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) is a UNESCO initiative.
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From personally relevant experience to action research for sustainable education
1 Central European Science Publishers. See
2 Available from
3 Available from
4 Institute of Sustainable Education. See
5 UNESCO (2005).Guidelines and Recommendations for Reorienting Teacher Education to Address Sustainability,
UNESCO Paris section, Technical Paper no. 2 (2005), p.23.
6 Salite, I. and Pipere, A. (2007). Journal of Teacher Education and Training: deepening action research. In
McKeown, R., ed.Good Practices in Education for Sustainable Development: Teacher Education Institutions. UNESCO
Education for Sustainable Development in Action Good Practices, no. 1, January 2007, pp. 41-47.
7 Belousa, I. and Micule, I. (2007). Experience of the Institute of Sustainable Education, Faculty of Education and
Management. In Vilela, M. and Corrigan, K., eds. Good Practices Using the Earth Charter: UNESCO Education for
Sustainable Development in Action, Good Practices, vol. 3, pp. 157–161, November 2007. [ISBN 978–9977–925–
54– 7]
8 The research approach used by the researchers of ISE is available online in the articles published in the JTET/
JTEFS collection Education and Sustainable Development: First Steps Toward Changes and the new scientific
journal, Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education (see ISE website, .
Beyond boundaries: implementing education for sustainable development in language arts
1 UNESCO (2005).
2 For an elaboration of this, see Down (2005).
3 From Orr, David (2004). Earth in Mind.
4 Glotfelty and Fromm (1996).
5 See McKeown’s ESD toolkit.
Further references:
- Down, L. ( 2005) Literature to address the problem of violence. In Guidelines and Recommendations for Reorienting
Teacher Education to Address Sustainability. UNESCO, Technical Paper (2) 2005.
- Glotfelty, Cheryll and Harold Fromm, eds. (2005).The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Athens
and London: University of Georgia Press.
- McKeown, R. and others (2000).Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit. Knoxville: Waste Management
Research and Education Institution.
- Miller, A. (1976). The Death of a Salesman, London: Penguin.
- Hodge, M. (2006). Limbo Island. In Nunez, E., Sparrow, J., eds.Blue Latitudes . Emeryville, CA: Seal Press.
Transforming higher education for a sustainable tomorrow: a case of learning by doing at Universiti Sains
Malaysia
1 Universiti Sains Malaysia (2008). Transforming Higher Education for a Sustainable Tomorrow. Penang, Malaysia:
USM, 2008.
2 Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education (2007). National Higher Education Action Plan 2007-2010: Triggering Higher
Education Transformation. Putrajaya, Malaysia: MOHE, 2007.
3 Walker, M. (2005). Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and Education.Educational Action Research, 13.1 2005:
p.103.
4 Cf. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Healthy Campus Series, Volumes 1-18, Penang, Malaysia: USM, 2003-2009.
5 For more information on the Healthy Campus programme, see
6 Zainal A. Sanusi and Hamoon Khelghat-Doost (2008). Regional Centre of Expertise as transformational platform
for sustainability: a case study of Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher
Education, 9.4 (2008): p. 487.
7 W. Chan Kim and Mauborgne, R. (2005). Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make
the Competition Irrelevant. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 2005.