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Sustainable development is an important change to vocational education and training (VET) practices and reflects changes that are occurring across the entire labour market. These changes create opportunities for providers and practitioners to conceptualise and establish new VET curriculums that support transitions to more sustainable practices. For business and industry these changes provide the opportunity to develop entrepreneurial ventures through collaboration with the educational sector and broader community. Research in this area centres on: ways to build capabilities and develop skills for sustainability including reskilling; exploring new vocational opportunities; understanding concepts around decent work, green jobs and sustainable economies; and how VET relates to inclusive growth in regional development. Advancing policy development and managing social and human capital are some areas this research impacts directly.
Research
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Recent publications
- A decade of progress on Education for Sustainable Development [international]
- Advancing green human capital: a framework for policy analysis and guidance [international]
- Can we meet the sustainability challenges?: the role of education and lifelong learning
- Conversations on cultural sustainability: stimuli for embedding Indigenous knowledges and ways of being into curriculum [Australia]
- Creating sustainable societies: developing emerging professionals through transforming current mindsets [USA]
- Education and skills for inclusive growth, green jobs and the greening of economies in Asia: case study summaries of India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam
- Education for sustainable development: connecting the dots for sustainability [Canada]
- Gender in employment policies and programmes: what works for women [international]
- Higher education in the sustainable development goals framework
- Indigenous knowledge and implications for the sustainable development agenda [international]
- Learning cities and the SDGs: a guide to action [international]
- Mainstreaming green job issues into national employment policies and implementation plans: a review [international]
- Reframing technical vocational education and training in Papua New Guinea: an autoethnographic investigation into the commercialisation of a mining town technical college
- Skills for green jobs study: Guyana
- The future of skills: employment in 2030 [UK, USA]
Resources
General
- Advancing TVET for youth employability and sustainable development
- Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017: from world development indicators [World Bank]
- Community-based adaptation to climate change (IIED)
- CSIRO: ECOS Magazine (journal)
- Decent work on plantations - brochure [ILO]
- Development co-operation report 2016: the sustainable development goals as business opportunities
- Education for people and planet: creating sustainable futures for all
- Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship (ESDGC) [UK]
- Education for sustainable development in Germany
- Environmental Sustainability Skills Project [Australia]
- European journal of education: research, development and policy: special issue - Education for people, prosperity and planet: can we meet the sustainability challenges?
- European Union Pacific Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Adaptation project
- Gen Green 4 Australia: a national study of the demand for and supply of skills for sustainability
- Globalisation, societies and education [journal]
- Green business booklet [ILO]
- Green economy barometer 2017
- Green growth knowledge platform
- Green jobs [ILO]
- Inclusive green economy (UNEP) [international]
- International Institute for Environment and Development
- International review of education, vol. 63, no. 6, December 2017
- Institute for Sustainable Futures (UTS) [Australia]
- Institute for Sustainable TVET and Management Services
- Job quality, innovation and employment outcomes in Europe
- Journal of sustainable development
- MSA: skills for sustainability [Australia]
- OECD work on green growth
- Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE)
- Securing forest business: a risk management toolkit for locally controlled forest businesses (IIED) [Ecuador; Guatemala; Kenya; Cambodia; Vietnam]
- Skills for the green economy [Cedefop]
- Sustainable development goals: education [UN]
- Sustainability resources (New South Wales Department of Education) [Australia]
- Sustainable skills [Australia]
- The greening of technical and vocational education and training (TVET@Asia, journal, Issue 6) [international]
- Transition report 2017-18: sustaining growth: green growth
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) resources:
- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Sustainable development and SDGs
- United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Green Development and Climate Change Programme
- United Nations Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform
- Wastewater and jobs: the Decent Work approach to reducing untreated wastewater
Statistical
- Environmental economy: employment and growth (Eurostat) [EU]
- Green economy (Central Statistical Office of Poland)
- Green economy: key figures (Statistics Denmark)
- Green Goods and Services (Bureau of Labor Statistics) [US]
- Green Growth Indicators (OECD)
- How the green economy affects us (Office for National Statistics) [UK]
- Measuring the green economy (ESA) [US]
- Socio-economic development (Eurostat) [EU]
- Supporting developing countries measure progress towards achieving a green economy (UN)
- Sustainable development indicators introduced (Eurostat) [EU]
Suggested reading
Key research from a broad date range
- Greener skills and jobs [OECD]
- Government of Malaysia's initiative for green economy and the TVET response
- Investing in youth: Tunisia: strengthening the employability of youth during the transition to a green economy
- Review of the ANTA VET in Schools program: final report to the Australian National Training Authority [Australia]
- Technology and vocational education for sustainable development: empowering individuals for the future
- Towards more sustainable livelihoods for all: how CSOs/NGOs are working with the UN system [Korea]
- Tracking the key policies on sustainability, VET and transition to a low carbon economy [Australia]