Offering environmental health studies for young people

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 schools should involve schoolchildren in local and regional studies on environmental health, including safe drinking water, sanitation and food and ecosystems and in relevant activities, linking these studies with services and research in national parks, wildlife reserves, ecological heritage sites etc.

1. Reorienting education towards sustainable development
2. Linking children and the environment
3. Implementing environmental health strategy
4. Developing local conservation groups

1. Using school children as community focal points for environmental information

1. Providing public access to environmental information
2. Promoting bioregionalism
3. Preventing child exposure to environmental hazards
4. Giving urban children practical ecological experience

1. Developing regional environmental health action plans

1. Nonlocal
2. Health
3. Conservative
4. Conservation