Preface -- 1. Introduction: Environmental Sustainability Education for a Changing World -- 2. Environment-related Targets in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2016-2030) and Their Representation in the IEEC Conferences -- 3. Community Learning and Resilience in the Himalayas: Uttarakhand, India -- 4. Influence of a Disaster on the Environmental Attitudes of University Students in Uttarakhand, India -- 5. Understanding the Motivations, Perceived Benefits and Needs of Long-term Volunteers on Environmental Projects -- 6. Education Strategy Supporting Environmental Services of Mountain Forest Catchments -- 7. Education and Meals – Could Awareness-raising Decrease the Food Footprint of Humankind? - 8. Public Educational Initiatives for Promotion of Knowledge about Rare Plants in Ukraine -- 9. Awareness of Biological Diversity and Endangered Plant Species and Ecological Education -- 10. The Development of Environmental Sustainability Education within Greenland’s Higher Education -- 11. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Tourism-oriented Vocational Degree Programmes in Turkey -- 12. Integrating Environmental Protection Education in the Curriculum: A measure to Form Awareness of Environmental Protection for the Community -- 13. An Integrated Model of Sustainability Education -- 14. Education for the SDGs in Teacher Training Using the Method of Unfinished Stories – Rewriting Newspaper Reports -- Index.

Globally, there is a need to promote and empower practical action towards better environmental conservation and greater sustainability; education aspires to achieve and motivate this – one mind at a time. This book advances a future-oriented vision of the development of environmental sustainability education in settings outside the high-school. It provides practical guidance for teacher practitioners and policy makers in community-oriented environmental sustainability education. It promotes a modern holistic approach to sustainability learning in and by the community through participative engagement with sustainability issues. Its special foci include working with volunteers and citizen scientists, through museums or through re-purposing Higher Education. Its approach emphasises the implementation of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and cooperation with environmental management professionals. This book’s cosponsors include the International Association for Headwater Control and FAO – European Forestry Commission’s Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds, as well as the International Environmental Education Conferences, Eger, Hungary and the Hungarian Academy of Science’s Subcommittee on Future Studies. Community education has long been a goal for environmental management, whose practitioners realise that interventions, such as biodiversity conservation, are only truly sustainable when supported by the local land-user and stakeholder communities; this depends upon these stakeholders’ understanding why intervention is necessary.