Increasing environmental management education capacities

Countries should encourage all sectors of society, such as industry, universities, government officials and employees, non-governmental organizations and community organizations, to include an environmental management component in all relevant training activities, with emphasis on meeting immediate skill requirements through short-term formal and in-plant vocational and management training.

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends that environmental management training capacities should be strengthened, and specialized "training of trainers" programmes should be established to support training at the national and enterprise levels.

1. Improving planning and management systems
2. Expanding environmental management education and training

1. Training mountain communities in integrated environmental management
2. Training integrative approaches to environmental management and planning
3. Training in environmental aspects of enterprise management
4. Supporting regional training programmes on environmental planning and management
5. Including environmental management in training programmes for all sectors of society
6. Improving community capacity for environmental education
7. Educating for integrated island management
8. Creating environmental education partnerships with industry

1. Managing the environment
2. Demonstrating sound environmental management

1. Establishing multisectoral national advisory and coordinating groups on environmental education
2. Assisting education institutions to contribute more to public environmental awareness programmes

1. Mismanagement