In this section you will find a number of selected methods, tools and resources for ESD. They are divided into thematic groups:
Education and learning for sustainability
Ecological sustainability
Social sustainability
Economic sustainability
You can also find an assortment of publications, links, videos and references. Our own reports can be found under our SWEDESD documents 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.
By Wolfgang Brunner, SWEDESD 2011 developed by Wolfgang Brunner of SWEDESD.
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
Ecological sustainability
UPA: Urban Planet Atlas is 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
Social sustainability
SUS Governance Mapping tool: One of the cornerstones of SWEDESD professional support & development programme (PSDP) is the recognition that governance networks provide a key to how many things happen in cities. Learning more about how governance networks operate in our own cities and how these can be strengthened is a key aim of the programme. Thus if you are joining this PSDP, an important starting point is to invite you to map the key stakeholders and networks associated with your city and more specifically, the particular city-wide programme which you are a part of. The mapping process we are proposing for this purpose is set out in section 3 below.
SWEDESD Governance Mapping Tool
Phase 2 Strong sustainability glossary
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
