The Scholar Agenda 21: a tool of Education for Sustainable Development

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The Scholar Agenda 21 a tool of Education for
Sustainable Development

• Itziar Aguado
• Carmen Echebarria
• José María Barrutia
• University of the Basque Country

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Index

• Environmental Education (EE)/ Education for
  Sustainable Development (ESD)
• Principal documents
• Application of Local Agenda 21 Scholar Agenda 21
  
• The aims of Scholar Agenda 21
• Three components of Scholar Agenda 21
• To organize Scholar Agenda 21 in phases
• Experiences in Spain
• Community of Madrid
• Community of Catalonia
• Community of the Basque Country
• Conclusions

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Environmental Education (EE)/ Education for
Sustainable Development (ESD)
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The basis of documents

• Impact of human being in environmental situation
• A combination of human sustainable development
  and environmental protection

• Belgrade Chapter
• Tbilisi Declaration
• Agenda 21

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Application of Local Agenda 21

• Scholar Agenda 21

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Scholar Agenda 21

• An invitation to citizens to participate and
  compromise with equitable development and local
  sustainability

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Aims of Scholar Agenda 21

• Produce environmental diagnosis
• In educational centres and their area of
  influence
• To intensify relations between society and
  environment

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Components of Scholar Agenda 21

• Management of school environment
• Curricular innovation
• Community participation

• Coherent with sustainable development
• To perceive and understand environmental issues
• To get a sustainable city

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To organize School Agenda 21 in phases

• Communication and organization
• Diagnoses and objectives
• Design of Action Plan
• Action
• Evaluation
• Communication

• (there are two initial phases in Catalonian
  experience motivation and awareness )

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Experiences in Spain
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Community of Madrid

• Principle characteristics
• Important impulse since 2002
• The project has win the prize of Excellence of
  the community
• Areas of work water, energy and waste, urban
  milieu, biodiversity, pollution and economic
  activities

• The experience of Madrid

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Catalonia and Province of Barcelona

• The experience in the Community of Catalonia

• Most successful experience in Spain
• 211 municipalities involved nowadays
• Actions to
• Reduce water consume
• Reduce paper consumption

The experience of Barcelona
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Basque Autonomous Community
The experience in the community

• Non compulsory document Basque Environmental
  Strategy for Sustainable Development 2002-2020
• Action plans focused on
• Waste management
• Traffic and transports
• Biodiversity
• Water consumption

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Basque Autonomous Community

• First Spanish city adopting Local Agenda 21 in
  1998
• Novel projects as
• Green Ring
• Green Mobile Point

• The experience of Vitoria-Gasteiz

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Conclusions

• Irregular participation focused on elementary
  education body
• Major part of municipalities in initial phases of
  projects
• It is too early to evaluate global results
• Request society to change its behaviour and
  consumption model

• The methodology of Scholar Agenda 21 can be
  extended to universities
• Scholar Agenda 21 helps to spread the concept of
  sustainable development in society

• It supposes the first step to create sustainable
  cities