Revisions of papers originally presented at an international workshop held in Belgrade, October 13-22, 1975.
This book is based on trend papers which served as working documents for the Belgrade International Workshop. They described the state-of-the-art in environmental education in all parts of the world, covering many of its aspects and all of its age levels. Authors came from thirteen countries representing a wide variety of regions Argentina, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Venezuela. A primary objective was the identification of relevant writings from every corner of the earth published during the previous four or five years. Older materials of enduring significance were added by the hundreds of individuals solicited by letter because of their special professional interest in environmental education. Each of the multinational working groups at the Belgrade Workshop extensively discussed the transferability of the concepts and the accuracy of the information of the trend papers in terms of their particular countries and regions. They also contributed case histories. In the light of these comments and contributions, the authors completely revised their preliminary papers, which are now appearing as Trends in Environmental Education. In three or four years, the entire process will be repeated in order to produce a second edition, to be entitled New World Trends in Environmental Education. The current edition of Trends in Environmental Education has been conceived by Unesco as addressed to all those concerned more about environmental education in every corner of the world, from government planners to environmental educators and individuals of an increasingly concerned general public. Environmental education, in the view of Unesco and in the words of the Belgrade Charter, 'Considers the environment in its totality natural and man-made, ecological, political, economical, technological, social, legislative, cultural and esthetic'. Such a view clearly concerns all.
