The world conservation strategy: Environmental education and local initiative |
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Authors: | Francis R Thibodeau Hermann H Field |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Urban and Environmental Policy, Tufts University, 02155 Medford, Mass., USA |
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Abstract: | Summary In the spring of 1981, Tufts University and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature began teaching the World
Conservation Strategy to environmentalists working at the local level. The fourteen-week course that they offered was the
first of a series of initiatives to increase public awareness of the need for local action toward the solution of global environmental
problems. The success of the first course has encouraged other groups to adapt it to their own social and ecological settings,
but there is a pressing need for even more public education. While several aids to teaching the World Conservation Strategy
are now being developed to give local conservation educators access to the Strategy, the initiative for bringing the World
Conservation Strategy to the public should continue to come from these local leaders.
Frank Thibodeau is an environmental biologist and policy analyst with MA and PhD degrees from Tufts University. He is currently
a Research Associate in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts, preparing a book on the World Conservation
Strategy as a foundation for local environmental initiative under the auspicies of IUCN and the World Wildlife Fund. In addition
to his writing and teaching related to the Strategy, he maintains an active research program examining the development of
national and international strategies for the preservation of genetic diversity.
Hermann H. Field, an urban planner and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, was director of the Planning Office
of the Tufts-New England Medical Center in downtown Boston for 12 years. In 1972 he initiated and then directed a new graduate
department of Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University. Since 1978 he has been Professor Emeritus in Environmental
Planning there. In addition to continued involvement in his department he is active on a range of levels in conservation from
the local to the international, including membership on IUCN's Commission on Environmental Planning. |
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