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Community-Based Sustainability: Conservation in the Ballarat Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

Barry Kentish  and
Ian Robottom
Barry Kentish*
Affiliation:
University of Ballarat
Ian Robottom
Affiliation:
Deakin University
*
†Academic Associate, Centre for Environmental Management, School of Science & Engineering, University of Ballarat, PO Box 663, Ballarat, Victoria 3353, Australia. Email: b.kentish@ballarat.edu.au
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Abstract

The discourse of sustainability is promoted internationally, with the United Nations declaring 2005-2014 as a Decade for Education for Sustainable Development. There is discussion concerning the nature, status and significance of Education for Sustainability and its relationship with the somewhat established discourse of environmental education. This debate requires continuing theorising and one approach is to reflect critically on specific examples of sustainability within specific communities. This article seeks to promote further discussion about sustainability, and to contribute to ongoing theorisation about Education for Sustainability, by considering a particular instance – that of environmental sustainability in the Ballarat region of Victoria. The case study suggests that implementation of this local environmental sustainability strategy was dominated by technocratic and individualistic ideologies.

Keywords

LA21environmental educationsustainabilitylocal governmentBallarat
Type
Research Article
Information
Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , 2006 , pp. 33 - 43
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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