A new decade.(Editorial)(UN's landmark Decade of Education for Sustainable Development )(Editorial)

Ecos, January, 2005 by Porteous, James

2005 has begun promisingly. The commencement of the UN's landmark Decade of Education for Sustainable Development is official international recognition that the principles of sustainability now need to be woven into our fundamental learning processes. It acknowledges that we require globally coordinated changes in thinking and action, carried out regionally. The Focus on page 8 profiles the rousing objectives and intentions of the Decade, and what they might mean for Australia. Macquarie University's Professor Daniella Tilbury is integral to the planning and application of the Decade's framework.

Last November's IUCN World Conservation Congress in Bangkok welcomed the commencement of the UN's Decade in light of increasingly complex conservation and development...

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