Methods and resources
In this section you will find a number of selected methods, tools and resources for ESD divided into thematic groups. You can also find an assortment of publications, links, videos and references. Our own reports can be found under our SWEDESD documents section on the front page.
The methods marked with an asterisk (*) are publications by SWEDESD or publications to SWEDESD or SWEDESD staff have made an intellectual and/or financial contribution.
Education and learning for sustainability
The Mini ecosystem*
A pedagogic tool for using models to understand complex issues such as sustainability, developed by Wolfgang Brunner of SWEDESD
The Mini ecosystem* (pp)
The Mini ecosystem folder*
Mini Ecosistema*
The Mission*
A pedagogic tool for learning about sustainability and resource limitations developed by Wolfgang Brunner of SWEDESD.
The Mission brochure*
The Mission* (pp)
La Misión*
Guidelines to the Mission*
The House*
Teacher and student manual, methodology for integrated physics, environment and social sciences for upper secondary school students. Developed by Wolfgang Brunner of SWEDESD 2011.
The House*
Education Notes Series (Worldbank)
The Education Notes Series is intended to summarize lessons learned and key policy findings from the World Bank’s work in education as it relates to Education for All. The series presents positive developments towards reaching the global Education for All challenge.
Education for All, EFA
The hand prints tool
This is developed by CEE, Center for Environment and Education. It is an action and solution oriented tool designed for today’s and tomorrow’s leaders of sustainability. The hand print tool focuses on one’s positive impacts and options to improve the conditions for today’s and future life on our planet rather than on the damage done by human activity.
http://www.handsforchange.org/abouthandprint.html
http://www.handsforchange.org/
The Royal Geographic Society's ESD glossary
ESD glossary
Social sustainability
Supporting Urban Sustainability Learning Exercises
This is a compilation of the most significant exercises used in SWEDESD's Supporting Urban Sustainability (SUS) training program. The exercises enable a collaborative learning process among urban professionals. The aim is to build capacity for taking advantage of the potential of ecosystem services to alleviate poverty in cities.
Pursuing a strategic inquiry for urban sustainability – Learning exercises
Ecological sustainability
UPA: Urban Planet Atlas
An initiative taken by The Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), which is a transdisciplinary research centre at Stockholm University. SRC focuses among other things on how innovation in governance and urban planning can contribute to strengthening ecosystem services in urban landscapes:
Urban Planet Atlas
Economic sustainability
Gaian economics, Economic Key
Jonathan Dawson, Helena Norberg- Hodge, Ross Jacksson (eds.), Permanent publications 2010.
This is a book about living well within our means. What is explored in this anthology is not just ways of reducing our consumptionn to levels that enable natural systems to self re-generate, but how we can do so in ways that permit a high quality of life - so that we live within our means and that we live well.
Gaian economics, Economic Key
