UNEP materials for ESC cover different aspects of the learning process, ranging from informal education to formal and professional education.

Teaching packs and other material:

1. UNEP/UNESCO youthXchange tool kit on education for sustainable consumption: a communication and learning tool to assist teachers, trainers and youth organisations in presenting sustainable lifestyles to 15 to 25 year-olds. The teaching pack consists of a guide translated into 15 languages, a website (French and English) and educational material (slides, pedagogical guidelines) that are delivered on request.
   Contact person: Morgan Strecker
   
   
2. ESC guidelines for governments and teachers developed in partnership with the Italian Marrakech Task Force on ESC and the Consumers Citizenship Network.
   Contact person: Isabella Marras
   
   
3. Sustainability Communications - A Toolkit for Marketing and Advertising Courses (CD-ROM): This CD-ROM provides resources for the educators training tomorrow's marketing/communication professionals, as well as for marketing/advertising trainers in the corporate field. It is not a "turnkey" teaching syllabus but a flexible, interactive tool which provides a synthesis of theoretical and methodological knowledge illustrated by numerous specific case studies.
   Contact person: Solange Montillaud Joyel
   
   
4. "Sowing the Seeds of Change: an Environmental and Sustainable Tourism Teaching Pack for the Hospitality Industry" (SSC) introduces environmental and sustainable tourism issues into the hospitality curricula. SSC is intended to support hospitality education centres develop and expand their environmental and sustainable tourism curricula. It is also intended to help hospitality professionals understand the challenges posed by the hospitality industry and to provide them with the knowledge and practical tools to develop in-house training programmes to support environmental initiatives in their hotels.
   Contact person : Catalina Echeverry
   Publication: available soon
   
   
5. D4S Design for Sustainability guide: A Practical Approach for Developing Economies. The guide introduces the D4S concept and how to apply it in a company setting in developing economies. It can be used to pursue internal D4S efforts (via the supply chain or single operation context) and by intermediaries who work with companies.
   Contact person: Garrette Clarke
   
   
6. A White Paper On Strategies For Education, Awareness And Capacity Building For The Design, Construction And Maintenance Of Eco-Cities And Villages In The Asia Pacific: Commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to contribute to capacity building and policy making during the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. It has been written in conjunction with a compendium UNEP White Paper titled Knowledge base for the design, construction and maintenance of Eco-settlements in Asia Pacific.
   
   This White Paper provides a cogent framework of:
   - Key sustainability education principles
   - Sustainable design values and precepts
   - Generic teaching and learning strategies for targeted stakeholder groups
   - Appropriate pedagogies
   - Case studies of exemplary curricula, and
   - Best practice teaching/learning programs.
   
   To be published mid 2008 with UNEP ROAP and UNESCO DESD
   Contact person: Peter Graham - UNEP SBCI www.unepsbci.org