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Emerging academic responsibilities and opportunities for promoting regional sustainability

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Author

  • Donald Huisingh

Summary, in English

Academics have had numerous responsibilities during the centuries. However, now with global climate changes and the attendant, looming crises, it is increasingly crucial that administrators, faculty members, graduate, undergraduate students, staff members and alumni work together with governmental.. non-governmental and industrial members in envisioning, societies that are truly sustainable. The visions must then be effectively and efficiently implemented in numerous locations throughout the world in regionally adapted societal experiments that will help to ensure that our children's, children's, children's children and beyond will enjoy this wonderful planet. The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) is an excellent framework within which academics can increasingly work to make the dramatic changes that are urgently needed. The DESD can then be implemented in the context of the The U.N. Millennium Development Goals" (MDG) and the "Earth Charter" as further framing and challenging inputs to guide our education, research and outreach that will help to ensure sustainable cities and regions within the global context.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

357-361

Publication/Series

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volume

6

Issue

5

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • MDG
  • Development Goals
  • UN Millennium
  • UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
  • DESD
  • Earth Charter
  • academic responsibilities

Conference name

4th International Conference on Environmental Engineering and Management

Conference date

2007-09-12 - 2007-09-15

Conference place

Iasi, Romania

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1843-3707
  • ISSN: 1582-9596