This training kit, from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Series on Journalism Education, attempts to provide media professionals with basic information about some priority issues for sustainable development. It also provides practical exercises to inspire investigative reporting, and draws links to existing experience that may enrich the information resources of media professionals.


According to the Introduction: "Journalism, at its simplest, is about helping people to understand their world better. Both the expert and the generalist can help to make that happen, and this manual is designed to be useful to both groups. The publication is accompanied by a DVD and a CD containing additional material. Throughout this kit, you will find boxes with information about Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and some of the subjects covered by each chapter. By reading these, you will discover more about why ESD matters and how the idea came into being."


Contents include:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Section One: Our damaged world
• Chapter 1 Climate change
• Chapter 2 Resource depletion:
  forests and fisheries
• Chapter 3 Resource depletion:
  fresh water
• Chapter 4 Biodiversity and extinction
• Chapter 5 Pollution
• Section Two: Reporting the issues
• Chapter 6 Discussing sustainability
• Chapter 7 Asking the right questions
• Chapter 8 Delivering warnings
• Chapter 9 Selling the story
• Section Three: A different future
• Chapter 10 Positive examples
• Chapter 11 A sustainable world
• Appendices
• Glossary
• Acronyms
• Additional resources

According to UNESCO, the resource kit can be translated and adapted to meet the local context of any country or region.


If you have any comments or questions kindly send an email to the contact below specifying ESD Media Kit in the subject line.

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Email from Venus Easwaran Jennings to Soul Beat Africa on August 13 2008.