The Role and Importance of Talloires Declaration in Establishing Sustainable Higher Education Institutions

Year 2021, Volume: 11 Issue: 2, 417 - 424, 31.08.2021

Muhammed Yunus Bilgili Abdulkadir Topal

Abstract

The intensive use of environmental and natural resources to satisfy human needs has risked the potential of renewable ecosystems and
caused environmental problems. In order to respond to the problems faced, the current economic system has been interrogated. In the
response emphasizing that future generations have the right to benefit from natural resources, the sustainable development approach has
come to prominence. It has been observed that the issues of sustainable development and sustainability have been intensely discussed by
higher education institutions since the 1980s. Until the Talloires Declaration (1990), the relationship between sustainability and higher
education has been focalized to environmental education, with this declaration, the sustainability of higher education institutions has
been brought to the agenda. The aim of this study is to examine Talloires Declaration on behalf of role, importance and transformations in
establishing sustainable higher education institutions.

Keywords

Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Higher Education Institutions, Environmental Education, Talloires Declaration

Sürdürülebilir Yükseköğretim Kurumları Oluşturulmasında Talloires Deklarasyonunun Rolü ve Önemi

Abstract

İnsani ihtiyaçların karşılanması amacıyla çevre ve doğal kaynakların yoğun bir şekilde kullanılması ekosistemlerin kendilerini yenileme
potansiyelini riske atmış ve çevre sorunlarına yol açmıştır. Karşılaşılan sorunların çözülebilmesi için mevcut ekonomik sistem
sorgulanmaya başlanmıştır. Çözüm önerileri içerisinde, gelecek kuşakların da doğal kaynaklardan yararlanma hakkı bulunduğunu
vurgulayan sürdürülebilir kalkınma anlayışı ön plana çıkmıştır. 1980’li yıllardan itibaren sürdürülebilir kalkınma ve sürdürülebilirlik
konularının yükseköğretim kurumları tarafından yoğun bir şekilde tartışıldığı görülmüştür. 1990 tarihli Talloires Deklarasyonuna kadar,
sürdürülebilirlik ve yükseköğretim ilişkisi çevre eğitimi odaklı olurken, söz konusu deklarasyonla beraber yükseköğretim kurumlarının
sürdürülebilir olup olmadıkları gündeme gelmiştir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, Talloires Deklarasyonunun sürdürülebilir yükseköğretim
kurumları oluşturulmasındaki rolü, önemi ve yarattığı dönüşümlerin incelenmesidir

Keywords

Sürdürülebilirlik, Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma, Sürdürülebilir Yükseköğretim Kurumları, Çevre Eğitimi, Talloires Deklarasyonu

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