Environmental Education in Asia-Pacific


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Introduction Challenges Action Resources

This resource package aims to acquaint the user with a brief overview of Environmental Education in the Asia-Pacific Region. The target audience for this package includes environmental educators, practitioners and facilitators. The package is divided into four main sections which are:

Introduction to Environmental Education
An overview of the concept, objectives and historical development of environmental education in Asia.

 Challenges facing Environmental Education in Asia-Pacific
Challenges facing the implementation of environmental education programs in the Asia-Pacific region.

 Action
 International commitments for environmental education in the region, as well as successful and unsuccessful case studies of environmental education programs in the region.

Resources
Resources for educators, policy-makers, as well as other web links related to environmental education




"Achieving sustainable development is a process of learning - we now need to learn how to live sustainably..." UNESCO

Credits
The script for this module was written by Dr. Bishnu Bhandari, former Principal Research Fellow with the Forest Conservation Project at IGES