The Education for Sustainable Development Project at UNU-IAS has worked with Regional Centres of Expertise (RCEs) worldwide to develop a new publication titled ‘Academia and Communities: Engaging for Change’.

A collective effort from various RCEs across the worldwide network, the publication looks at the contribution of knowledge to sustainable development, with a focus on the interaction between science and society. These are presented in the form of RCE-led initiatives throughout 17 chapters which demonstrate the engagement between knowledge institutions and communities.

These contributions look at the ways in which local development problems can be approached through a variety of ESD forms and practices initiated by the multi-stakeholder networks of the RCEs, and which contribute to the ambitions of the GAP (Global Action Programme on ESD).

The publication is the fourth book in a series covering learning contributions and sustainability initiatives of RCEs – the others focused on Sustainable Consumption and Production, Traditional Knowledge and Biodiversity, and Health, Hygiene, Sanitation and Nutrition, published in 2012, 2013 and 2018 respectively.

To download an English version of the book, click here.