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Updated: 09-01-2003 6:22 pm |
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| UNESCO’s contribution to the Johannesburg
debate emphasizes that human security and poverty alleviation are
inconceivable without sustainable development.
This
requires that environmental, social and cultural as well as economic
aspects of sustainable development be taken together, and that the
interactions and interfaces between them be better understood.
Activities relating to sustainable development are found in many
parts of UNESCO’s programme, and it is possible to group these activities
in several different ways. In this website, activities are presented under
five main thematic headings:
- Educating for sustainability, including both formal
and non-formal education, alternative delivery systems to reachthe
unreached, and training and capacity-building in fields related to
sustainable development.
- Science for sustainable development, including the
promotion of multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches involving the
natural as well as social and human sciences to the wise use of natural
resources and to the improved understanding of human-environment
relationships.
- Ethical principles and guidelines for sustainable
development, including the promotion of principles, policies and ethical
norms to guide scientific and technological development that is
sustainable.
- Integrating culture, cultural diversity and the
world heritage as key dimensions in activities aimed at sustainable
development.
- Contributing to sustainable development through the media and information and communication technologies
(ICTs).
In providing an entry to information
on these different subjects and thematic areas, this web site will be
further developed in the coming weeks, including a gradual broadening of
linkages with relevant web sites held by collaborating institutions of
various types (governmental, non-governmental, private) at various levels
(national, regional, international). New entries will also be prepared on
UNESCO work related to sustainable development in more specific
cross-cutting fields, additional to the existing entries (tourism,
biological diversity, ...).
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