Reactions to the UNEP/UNESCO Intergovernmental

Conference onEnvironmental Education

(Tbilisi, 1977)

Simon Gooding-TownsendMcMaster University, History 3ES3

26 November 2010

Useful Acronyms

• UN: United Nations• UNESCO: United Nations Educational,

Scientific and Cultural Organization• UNEP: United Nations Environment

Programme• NGO: Non-Governmental Organisation

Conference

• Organised by UNESCO • Tbilisi (Georgia, then part of USSR)• October 14-26, 1977• Participants:– 66 UNESCO Member States– 8 UN Programmes– 3 Intergovernmental Agencies– 20 NGOs

Response in the Media

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Late Breaking News!?!

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Importance

• Kartikeya Sarabhai, Journal of Education for Sustainable Development

• Charles Hopkins, UNESCO Chair for Reorienting Teacher Education and United Nations University Chair for Education for Sustainable Development

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Rachel CarsonSilent Spring

Published 1962

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Love Canal

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Love Canal refers to the late 1970s protests of residents of the Love Canal neighbourhood when they discovered the health risks of living and attending school above an old toxic waste dump

The Iron Curtain

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Arts and Science Programme

Environmental Education

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