The 7th WEEC will have room also for the sea. All stakeholders engaged in EE focused on the sea are invited to attend the congress and to submit proposals. The 7th WEEC in Marrakech will be a special occasion to meet networks, institutions, researchers, local bodies, practitioners interested in EE for the marine environment protection […]
Green Room in Nairobi
Innovations in Higher Education for Sustainability: Launch of Platform for Sustainable Performance in Education
The Greenroom was a meeting room reserved primarily for the participating Major Groups and Stakeholders of civil society during the First Universal Session of the GC/GMEF of UNEP, from Monday 18th to Friday 22nd February 2013.
The event included keynote presentations on Innovations in Higher Education for Sustainability. A closing presentation on the upcoming 7th World Environmental Education Congress, 9-14 June 2013 in Morocco, was delivered by the WEEC Secretary General Mario Salomone.
“Culture della sostenibilità” (“Cultures of Sustainability”) is the scientific six-monthly journal that originated in Italy in 2007 and is open to the world to encourage trans-disciplinary and trans-cultural debates to discuss the themes of sustainability. The plural of the title (“Cultures”) is, in fact, important. The papers are accepted also in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, in addition to Italian.The focus is especially on the new emerging social practices and on the role of education in changing the model of production, consumption and lifestyle. What are the most effective approaches? What changes are ongoing to pave the way for a more “green” and a more sustainable future, or rather for a more just and human society that can ensure all human beings quality of life within the planetary boundaries. The subject of the papers must regard research, case studies, experiences and reflections on sustainability, with particular attention to the interactions between society and environment, innovative social practices and / or the role of formal, non formal and informal education.
Explore, Experience, Educate
Brisbane (Australia) 19-23 Luglio 2011
Si è svolto in Australia il 6° Congresso mondiale di educazione ambientale. Il congresso, che per la prima volta si teneva nella regione Asia-Pacifico, è stato organizzato dalla AAEE (Australian Association for Envrionmmental Education) e dal Segretariato Permanente WEEC. Durante i quattro giorni di congresso relazioni, comunicazioni, tavole rotonde e workshops hanno consentito uno scambio di esperienze e di idee tra persone giunte spesso dopo un lungo e faticoso viaggio. Partecipanti dai cinque continenti si sono confrontati con esperti mondiali sulle più recenti ricerche sull’educazione ambientale, sul quadro economico e politico e sui programmi, sui nuovi modi di pensare ed esplorare nuovi trend nell’ambito dell’educazione ambientale.
Environmental educators from all of the world will soon meet in Brisbane, in Australia, at the 6th World Environmental Education Congress(WEEC), which will take place in July 19-23 2011. During the WEEC they will share new ways of thinking, acting and explore original trends of research and practices in environmental education.
This year the Conference is organized by the Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE).
Biodiversity and climate change
The 2010 international campaign “Mediterranean Action Day” promoted by MIO-ECSDE is dedicated to the theme of biodiversity in the Mediterranean sea and climate change. As pointed out by IUCN, the Mediterranean region is one of the places on earth in with the highest biodiversity and richness in landscapes.
57.468 animal species, of which 1.255 are vertebrates. 8.000 plants (12.000 if we include algae and lichens), plus 20.000 species of mushrooms. These are the numbers that describe the richness of Italian biodiversity.
In his first article (meu primeiro artigo) (1984), Marcos Reigota tells about his initiatic experience as Science teacher with children attending two primary schools located in two different areas of the metropolis of São Paulo, Brazil. The first area is affected by a growing industrialization and the problem of pollution becomes matter of discussion among […]
The promise of friluftsliv, it seems, is access to a sensuous world, and through this, access to home, an oikos. Yet while an outdoor life may be necessarily a part of that access it may not, by it self, be sufficient to appreciate the “spell of the sensuous” (Abram, 1996). What may be required is […]
Bob Jickling, Lakehead University; Lucie Sauvé, Université du Québec à Montréal; LaurenceBrière, Université du Québec à Montréal; Blair Niblett, Lakehead University; Emily Root, Lakehead University, Canada This paper contextualizes the 5th World Environmental Education Congress, discusses the theoretical underpinnings of the Congress theme, “Earth our Common Home,” and relates this theorizing to the research project […]
La terra, nostra casa comune
Montreal (Canada), 10-14 Maggio 2009
Il Quinto congresso mondiale di educazione ambientale di Montreal ha riunito 2.200 partecipanti, provenienti da 106 paesi. Questo dato conferma il crescente interesse verso l’educazione all’ambiente e alla sostenibilità, che si rivela un campo complesso ed in costante cambiamento.
Questi i principali obiettivi del congresso: promuovere e ampliare il ruolo dell’educazione ambientale nella ricerca del senso e crescita dell’identità umana per la costruzione di individui, comunità e società più sane; nell’innovazione ed eco-sviluppo della società; nello sviluppo di politiche pubbliche e del rapporto tra ecologia, ecosofia ed economia, al fine di superare il momento di crisi attuale.
L’evento ha rappresentanto inoltre un’importante occasione per condividere conoscenze, discutere pratiche, progetti e programmi di azione politica.
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