'Education for sustainable development enables people to develop the knowledge, values and skills to participate in decisions about the way we do things individually and collectively, both locally and globally, that will improve the quality of life now without damaging the planet for the future'. UK Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA 14 September 1998)

Education normally implies a systematic learning process through a course of instruction or teaching. It involves a growth in knowledge and the ability to apply that knowledge. A conservation management curriculum is widely understood to include elements of knowledge, skills and values and is expected to result in changed behaviour. The scope of an environmental curriculum has been widening over the past three decades.  This greater scope may be organised under five interdisciplinary knowledge frameworks.

http://www.sustainabilitylabs.org/page/sustainability-five-core-principles

http://www.bioculturaldiversity.net/Downloads/Papers%20participants/Verschuuren.pdf