From Environmental Education to Education for Sustainable Development

Environmental Policy and Law

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 79-85

  Rest, Alfred ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b German Federal Ministry for the Environment Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HEALTH; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

JUDICIAL INSTRUMENTS;

EDUCATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0036542748     PISSN: 0378777X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. UN Economic and Social Council, Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), Sixth Session 20 April-1 May 1998, Report of the Secretary-General; Capacity-building, education and public awareness, science and transfer of environmentally sound technology, E/CN.17/1998/6/Add.2.
2. For information about BIO and its programmes see www.biopolitics.gr.
3. Cf. CSD, Sixth Session, 20 April-1 May 1998, Final Report: International Conference on Environment and Society: Education and Public Awareness for Sustainability (Thessaloniki, 8-12 December 1997) under issue 4.
4. See CSD, Eighth Session, 24 April-5 May 2000, Implementation of the work programme on education, public awareness and training, Report of the Secretary-General, 7 February 2000 (E/CN.17/2000/8), under paras 1-3.
5. See CSD, Implementation of the work programme on education, public awareness and training (note 4), under paras 22-24.
6. Cf. Report of the Secretary-General (note 1) under para. 17.
7. See Report of the Secretary-General (note 1), para. 21; Gerhard de Haan, Von der schulischen Umwelterziehung zur Bildung für Nachhaltigkeit, Paradigmenwechsel, in Politische Ökologie 1997, p. 22.
8. Report of the Secretary-General (note 1), para. 39.
9. CSD estimates that achieving the changes sought requires a period of perhaps 20 years or more. Cf. CSD, Seventh Session 19-30 April 1999. Implementation of the international work programme on education, public awareness and training, Report of the Secretary-General (E/CN.17/1999/11, 29 January 1999), Chapter III.
10. UNESCO, Paris, November 1997 (EPD-97/Conf.401/CLD.1).
11. For further details see note 2, Chapter II.
12. For the details cf. A. Vlavianos-Arvanitis, BIO-SYLLABUS, A model of global bio-education promoted by the International University for the Bio-Environment, Athens 1992.
13. See, for instance, the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication, ESDebate, International debate on education for sustainable development (eds F. Hesselink, P.P. van Kempen and A. Wals) IUCN, 2000.
14. CSD, Seventh Session 19-30 April 1999 (note 9), Chapter A, paras 3-4.
15. For details cf. A. Vlavianos-Arvanitis, Biopolitics, Bio-Syllabus (note 12).
16. R. Bleischwitz and H. Schütz, Unser trügerischer Wohlstand. Ein Beitrag zu einer deutschen Ökobilanz, in: Wuppertal Texte 1, Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie, 1993.
17. J. Rifkin, Entropy: A New World View, 1980.
18. For further details of the theological approach see A. Vlavianos-Arvanitis, BIO-Syllabus (note 12), chapter on bio-theology.
19. A. Rest, Need for an International Court for the Environment? Underdeveloped Legal Protection for the Individual in Transnational Litigation, in Environmental Policy and Law 24, 1994, p. 173
20. For this mechanism see A. Rest, Ecological Damage in Public International Law. International Environmental Liability in the Drafts of the UN International Law Commission and the UN/ECE Task Force, in Environmental Policy and Law, 21, 1992, pp. 31-35.
21. A. Rest, Internationaler Umweltschutz, in: Ergänzbares Lexikon des Rechts, under 4/1070, Luchterhand Publications, 2000, pp. 1-20.
22. Numerous research studies on domestic jurisdiction show that judges are not so proficient at applying international environmental law. For details cf. A. Rest, An International Court for the Environment: The Role of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, in International Alternative Dispute Resolution: Past, Present and Future. Centennial Papers. Edited by The International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, 2000, p. 53.
23. Cf. report of the Secretary-General of the UN Economic and Social Council, CSD, May 1998 (note 1), under para. 29.
24. Cf. note 4.
25. Cf. CSD, Eighth Session, 24 April-5 May 2000 (note 4), under para. 7.
26. Letter of August 1999.
27. Cf. G.D. Buchan, Obstacles to effective environmental education, in Environmental Education and Information, 21, 2000, pp. 1-10.
28. For further details cf. CSD, Eighth Session (note 4), para. 9.
29. Cf. note before, under paras 10 et seq.
30. For further details see CSD, Eighth Session (note 4), under paras 14-17.
31. CSD, Seventh Session, 19-30 April 1999 (note 9), para. 16.
32. For details cf. A. Rest, Neue Mechanismen der Zusammenarbeit und Sanktionierung im internationalen Umweltrecht. Gangbare Wege zur Verbesserung der Umwelt? in Natur und Recht, 16, 1994, pp. 271.
33. In its famous judgment of 30 July 1993, the Supreme Court of the Philippines stopped the deforestation of tropical forests for the benefit of future generations. It based its grounds, inter alia, on the principles of intergenerational equity and responsibility, as well as on the basic human right to a decent and healthy environment. For details see A. Rest, The Oposa Decision: Implementing the Principles of Intergenerational Equity and Responsibility, in Environmental Policy and Law, 24, 1994, pp. 314.
34. Cf. the working papers of T. van den Hout: Resolving Environmental Disputes. From Negotiation to Adjudication; A. Postiglione: The need for the International Court of the Environment; and A. Rest: Peaceful settlement of transnational environmental conflicts. Why not by an International Court of the Environment? presented at BIO conference "Resolving the Environmental Crisis. The Need for an International Court of the Environment", Athens, 20-22 January 2001. For further details see www.biopolitics.gr under Publications; BIO News No. 26, April 2001 at pp. 1, 8-10, 12-15 (environmental education).