WHAT IS ED end of feb

Graham Allen (Environmental Manager in Swansea Metropolitan University) took todays lecture and bassed it on Sustainable Education. Education is critical for promoting sustainable development. Agenda 21 (Clarifies and extends ability, encourages students to reflect, debate and form opinions
Coporate responsibility involves:

Coroporate strategy
Integration
Management
Performance and impact
Community
Environment
Market Place
Work Place

Digression: The benefits of growth involves:

Employment
Income increases
Decrease in poverty
Improves standards of living
Economic stability
Creativity
Innovation

GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
Causes:

War
Deforestation
Crime
Pollution

Not included:

Loss of natural resources
Caring work
Womens work

Employment

Sharing work hours
Higher working hours means less marginal benefit
Shorter working hours means more jobs and more leisure time.


Political Strategy

The public can be part of the transsition to sustainable society
Global down-turn is in part a result of avoiding the inevitable signs
Public need leadership to work towards sustinability
National Assembly has a duty to promote sustainable development in everything that it does

And the principles of embedding sustainable development as a central organising principle

Long termism
Integration
Involvement


5 themes of ESDGC (Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship):

1.Links between society, economy, environment and our lives
2.Rights for the present and future generations
3.Relationship between power, resources and human rights
4.Local and global implications
5.Actions individuals cn take in response to the implications


Welsh Government recommends that ESDGC continues to be delivered through:

Leadership
Learning nd teching
Practice within an HEI
Partnership and community working
Research

three components of sustainble development are:

environment
economic
social sustainability.

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Well that's everything, toodles!