Regional centres of expertise as mobilising mechanisms for education for sustainable development

Education for sustainability-challenges and opportunities

“…RCE Saskatchewan was one of the very first RCEs, being established in 2005, and was strongly based on volunteerism, as with most RCEs. Early on it established a lightweight organisational structure which, according to Petry et al (2015), 'sought to maximise impacts on human well being and ecological health while minimising resource use'. Its commitment to the unifying common cause of ESD enabled the RCE to be valued as a non-partial objective voice in an area which was known for extremes of right and left (Petry and Benko 2015: 184).…”