Involving local people in raising public awareness on the environment

Agenda 21 recommends that countries, in cooperation with the scientific community, should establish ways of employing modern communication technology for effective public outreach on the environment. National and local educational authorities and relevant United Nations agencies should expand, as appropriate, the use of audio-visual methods, especially mobile units in rural areas, by producing television and radio programmes for developing countries, involving local participation, employing interactive multimedia methods and integrating advanced methods with folk media.

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the UN Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Promoting proactive approaches to sustainable development
2. Involving local populations
3. Increasing public awareness of sustainable development
4. Coordinating international sustainable development information programmes

1. Developing Local Agenda 21

1. Strengthening role of local authorities in sustainable development
2. Providing public information on transport sustainable for health and environment
3. Providing public access to environmental information
4. Enlisting media cooperation on the environment
5. Employing local people
6. Coordinating cultural artform media

1. Strengthening participation of women in sustainable development programmes
2. Raising biodiversity awareness in economic sectors

1. Unsustainable
2. Undeveloped
3. Underdevelopment
4. Unaware
5. Overdevelopment
6. Nonlocal
7. Development
8. Awareness