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How Many Declarations Do We Need? Inside the Drafting of the Bonn Declaration on Education for Sustainable Development

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  • Heila Lotz-Sisitka

    (Heila Lotz-Sistka is a professor at the Environmental Education and Sustainability Unit, Rhodes University, South Africa. She has participated in drafting declarations and recommendations from several major conferences. Email: H.Lotz@ru.ac.za)

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The Bonn Declaration, approved by the 900 participants at the UNESCO World Conference on Sustainable Development, differs from other conference declarations in that it is the first declaration to deal exclusively with education for sustainable development. It received input from official State representatives and, perhaps because of that, it is somewhat less provocative than some nongovernmental or university-sponsored declarations. Also, it actually sets out, with some authority, an agenda for UNESCO, the manager of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. Though some may question the usefulness of conference declarations, history shows that such declarations do have at least some guiding power in that they provide common starting points for deliberation on possible changes at national and international levels.

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  • Heila Lotz-Sisitka, 2009. "How Many Declarations Do We Need? Inside the Drafting of the Bonn Declaration on Education for Sustainable Development," Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, , vol. 3(2), pages 205-210, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jousus:v:3:y:2009:i:2:p:205-210
    DOI: 10.1177/097340820900300217
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    1. Eleni Sinakou & Jelle Boeve-de Pauw & Peter Van Petegem, 2019. "Exploring the concept of sustainable development within education for sustainable development: implications for ESD research and practice," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 21(1), pages 1-10, February.

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