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

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ID23236307
AuthorsHeila Lotz-Sisitka (0000-0002-5193-9881, 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., corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume3
Issue2
Pages205-210
Publication date2009-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Education for Sustainable Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0973-4074 • E-ISSN: 0973-4082
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/097340820900300217
OpenAlexW2068836834
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited2

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.

Declaration · Deliberation · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · State (computer science) · Sustainable development · Environmental law and policy · Human Rights and Development · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Public Administration

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