strategy
Offering environmental health studies for young people
Synonyms:
Involving school children in studies on environmental health Implementation:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.Agenda 21 recommends that schools should involve schoolchildren in local and regional studies on environmental health, including safe drinking water, sanitation and food and ecosystems and in relevant activities, linking these studies with services and research in national parks, wildlife reserves, ecological heritage sites etc.
Broader:
Linking children and the environmentDeveloping local conservation groupsImplementing environmental health strategyReorienting education towards sustainable development Facilitates:
Promoting bioregionalismPreventing child exposure to environmental hazardsPreventing child exposure to environmental hazardsGiving urban children practical ecological experience Facilitated by:
Developing regional environmental health action plans Subjects:
Society → InfantsSociety → Youth
Research, Standards → Study
Health Care → Health
Environment → Environment
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
