1st Edition
The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda
Foreword
by Wolfgang Lutz
Introduction: Education in, through and for sustainable development
Chapter 1: People: Enabling physical, mental, and socioemotional wellbeing
Chapter 2: Planet: Ensuring environmental sustainability and equity
Chapter 3: Prosperity: Building inclusive, sustainable communities
Chapter 4: Peace: Establishing positive peace and stable societies
Chapter 5: Partnership: Promoting equitable networks for sustainable development
Conclusion: Looking within, across, and beyond the five Ps of sustainable development
Biography
Stephanie E.L. Bengtsson is a researcher, educator, and consultant working on a range of topics related to international education and development, including inclusive education, sustainable development, teachers and teaching, education in emergencies, and education and migration. She is based at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Austria.
Bilal Barakat is a researcher, lecturer, and consultant specialising in education modelling and planning who works on a diverse range of research topics, including education and sustainable development, higher education quality assurance, education in post-conflict settings, teacher training and recruitment. He is based at the Wittgenstein Centre, Austria.
Raya Muttarak is a researcher and lecturer working on education, climate action, and sustainable development, differential impacts of climate variability on health, migration, and child welfare, and climate change perceptions and environmental behaviours. She is based at the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia, UK, and is affiliated with the Wittgenstein Centre, Austria.
The Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital is a collaboration between the World Population Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (VID/ÖAW), the Demography Group and the Research Institute on Human Capital and Development of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). The Centre combines the partners’ multidisciplinary strengths in order to contribute to the scientific evidence base in the fields of demography, human capital formation and analysis of the returns to education.
