Sustainable Lifestyles and the Post-2015 Agenda – Searching for a World–embracing Vision

In preparation for the International Conference on Higher Education for Sustainable Development, Nagoya 9 November 2014, and the UNESCO World Conference on ESD, Nagoya, Japan, 10-12 November 2014, IAU prepared a special issue of IAU Horizons on The role of higher education in the post 2015 Development Agenda. Download Horizons Vol. 20 N° 3, November 2014.
Sustainable Lifestyles and the Post-2015 Agenda – Searching for a World–embracing Vision - by Victoria W. Thoresen
Awareness of the impacts human activity has on the environment and on society is not new, but integrating up-to- date, evidence-based insights on the topic into higher education curricula and practice is only slowly becoming noticeable. Following the first global wake-up calls in the early 1970’s, the topic of minimizing the effects on nature caused by the way people live was reiterated and became the core mandate for Agenda 21 initiatives. More in Horizons Vol. 20 N° 3, November 2014.