Key issues and challenges

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Communicating sustainability: How to produce effective public campaigns : UNEP
Case study, Reference material

This report covers the principles and challenges of communicating sustainability effectively. Case studies are presented from all over the world of effective communication campaigns.

Sustainability Curriculum in Higher Education: A Call to Action : Association for the advancement of sustainability in higher education
key issues and challenges

AASHE has released Sustainability Curriculum in Higher Education: A Call to Action. As a follow-up to the AASHE Summit on Sustainability in the Curriculum held in San Diego in February, the Call to Action lays out nearly forty recommendations for action and four major strategic initiatives including establishing a faculty fellows program, developing regional centers, leveraging assessment requirements, and creating a Collaborative for Sustainability Curriculum Change.
 

Teaching and learning through civil engagement: Prospects for sustainability in teacher education : Issues in Educational Research 2010
Reference material

The title of the article describes its content. Challenges to uptake by academics in using community organisations to teach sustainability could be applied to other disciplines.

The Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit
Case study, Reference material, Syllabus, Toolbox

The Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit is an easy-to-use manual for beginning the process of combining education and sustainability.The ESD Toolkit will help schools and communities develop a process for creating locally relevant and culturally appropriate education. This Toolkit is based on the idea that communities and educational systems need to dovetail their sustainability efforts. Ideally, local educational systems can reorient existing curriculums to reinforce local sustainability go als.  An easy-to-use manual including tools for managing change, creating goals and introducing fundamentals of sustainability.