Professional paper
THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITY IN EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Igor Matutinović
; CEMA, Zagreb
Abstract
Croatia starts rather overdue with the process of environmental education or completely saying, of education for sustainable society. That, however, does not have to mean that it will infinitely tag after the leading countries, but it is, above all, an opportunity to learn from other experiences. Long duration experiences of Nordic countries and, for instance, Scotland, could serve to Croatia to avoid political and organizational mistakes and to be in step as soon as possible, having in mind that it is a question about investing in long term prosperity of its population.
Recent research of population attitudes on environmental protection pointed at a high level of an respondent environmental awareness and willingness to exert oneself in addition in connection with environmental protection. Does Croatia also have a political preparedness to approach to education for sustainable society with responsibility and systematically, remains only to be seen.
Keywords
education for sustainable society; environmental education; environmental protection; university
Hrčak ID:
141624
URI
Publication date:
15.1.1998.
Visits: 911 *