著者

今井 長兵衛

出版者

Osaka Urban Living and Health Association

雑誌

生活衛生 (ISSN:05824176)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.50, no.6, pp.483-500, 2006 (Released:2006-12-07)

参考文献数

86

被引用文献数

1

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Papers were reviewed in order to reveal the developmental process of the environmental education concept from the Stockholm Declaration (1972) to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) and to clarify the principle of education for sustainable society as a current phase of environmental education. Among the many issues, the author emphasizes the need for education on local environmental pollution, awareness of the assailant versus sufferer relationships in every environmental problem, participation in action and movements against global environmental crisis, and global partnerships between assailants, mostly in ‘developed’ countries, and sufferers, mainly in ‘developing’ countries, against economic globalization. The urgent goals of education for sustainable society are considered to be the eradication of poverty, diseases, violence, discrimination, and social injustice in ‘developing’ countries, most of which have been caused by globalization and the ‘developed’ countries. The conventional environmental ethic is considered as a combination of the inter-generation ethic and the space ship ethic. The former says that the present generation is the assailant of the future generation while the latter states that all people on earth are equally crew members of the earth as a space ship. These two ethics ignore the existence of assailants and sufferers in both present and future generations and place the sufferers in the present generation under a false charge as assailants of the future generation. A new environmental ethic should be established on the basis of the inter-generation ethic and an alternative to the space ship ethic, namely the inter-area ethic that declares the existence of assailants and sufferers in both present and future generations.