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Issue 2(4) of The Environmentalist featured an editorial entitled, “The Importance of Being In Earnest About Environmental Education”. The editorial discussed, in brief, a September 1982 meeting at Unesco in Paris at which environmental education experts evaluated the Unesco/UNEP Environmental Education Program and made recommendations for the program's upcoming triennial budget. This report, as indicated in the editorial, examines the International Environmental Education Program in more detail, exploring why it was established, its major goals, and the pilot projects and other activities which have taken place in the eight years that the Program has existed. The article concludes with a series of suggestions for supplementing the Unesco/UNEP effort as well as with a comprehensive list of publications for readers who are interested in pursuing any of the individual aspects of the International Environmental Education Program.
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Publications concerning the Unesco International Environmental Education Program, Available through Unesco except as noted.
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Anne M. Blackburn is currently an Expert Consultant to the Commanding Officer and Chief of Planning at the New England Division/US Army Corps of Engineers, Waltham, MA, USA. Her responsibilities include maintaining coordination with the Governors of the six New England States, through the NE Governors' Conference, and with officials in multiple state agencies and ten federal agencies which have water-related responsibilities. Formerly Ms. Blackburn worked at the New England River Basins Commission (Boston, MA) and the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin (Rockville, MD) where, in 1978, she and David Hughes-Evans, co-editor ofThe Environmentalist, jointly managed the Thames/Potomac Seminars. These brought US and UK policy experts and other water-related interests together to discuss management approaches to common problems. Ms. Blackburn has served as a consultant to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources; and to the US Environmental Protection Agency; the National Science Foundation; and Resources For the Future on public involvement in resource management issues. She is a member of the International Editorial Board ofThe Environmentalist, and is married to James Aldrich, co-editor of the publication.
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Blackburn, A.M. Steps along the path: the UNESCO/UNEP international environmental education program. Environmentalist 3, 269–276 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02316389
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