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Staff Profile

Wendy Goldstein

Room:	E8A 372
Phone:	+61 2 9850 6299
Fax:	+61 2 9850 7972
Email:	wgoldste@gse.mq.edu.au

Profile

I joined the Graduate School of the Environment in mid 2005 after returning to Australia after 14 years working for IUCN – the World Conservation Union, an international organisation in Gland, Switzerland.

I started working as IUCN Head of Environmental Education and Communication at a most exciting time. It was just before the Third World Congress on Protected Areas in Caracas, Venezuela 1992; IUCN, WWF and UNEP had launched their Strategy for Sustainable Living – "Caring for the Earth" and in 1992 there was the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio that shaped the idea of education for sustainable development. I have been working on that ever since...

I worked with a great voluntary global network of people, the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication CEC, who were exploring how to be more effective as change agents for sustainability and for biodiversity conservation. We are a knowledge network and share learning with governments, NGOs, education professionals and in environmental Convention processes.

I am now a member of the Commission and in 2007 I was part of a team developing a Convention toolkit for governments on how to use communication and education to engage with the public and mainstream biodiversity. http://www.cbd.int/cepa/toolkit/index.html

My work meant I met many interesting and reflective people from university environment departments from all over the world as a part of the CEC World Conservation Learning Network WCLN www.wcln.org. So here I am a part of that teaching fraternity, enjoying relating theory to practice, working with students with rich experiences and a collaborative GSE staff!

Research Interests

Social change and managing learning and change processes.

Teaching

Programme Co-ordinator for the GSE Environmental Education Programs and Sustainable Development Programs.

Convenes and teaches

• GSE 825 Sustainable Development Introductory Principles
• GSE 827 Education for Sustainable Development
• GSE 828 Action Research, which are core units for the Sustainable Development awards
• Contributes to units in ENV 200

Networks/Voluntary contributions

• Regional Chair and Steering Committee member of the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication;
• Member IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas;
• Leader of the Australian Association of Environmental Education Special Interest Group for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development;
• Community member of the Sustainability Advisory Group of the Lane Cove Council, Sydney.

Publications

1. Dela J Goldstein W and Cowasjee D 2002 "The Role of Communication" Ch.18 in Carew-Reid J. Ed. Biodiversity Planning in Asia, Review of National biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans Sri Lanka:IUCN
2. Goldstein W ed 1979 Australia's 100 Years of National Parks - Parks and Wildlife, 2:3/4
3. Goldstein W 1998 Public Education and Awareness How to Put it into Practice: Report of the Global Biodiversity Forum Workshop, Bratislava, Gland: IUCN Commission on Education and Communication
4. Goldstein W and Auchincloss E 2005 Communication as a means of building support for protected areas, in McNeely, J. ed Building Support for Protected Areas. Gland: IUCN
5. Goldstein W 1979 "Parks for Education", in Goldstein, W. Australia's 100 Years of National Parks- Parks and Wildlife 2:3-4 p.79-86
6. Goldstein W 2005 Education and Communication, in "Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Global Assessment Reports – Policy Responses." Volume 3 Findings of the responses Working Group, Chapter 5 p.159-161 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
7. Hamu D. Auchincloss E and Goldstein, W eds 2004 "Communicating Protected Areas" Bangkok: IUCN and Commission on Education and Communication
8. Hesselink F Goldstein W van Kempen P Garnett T and Dela J 2007 Toolkit CEPA CDB and IUCN CEC http://www.cbd.int/cepa/toolkit/index.html
9. Hesselink F Goldstein W 2000 "The role of IUCN – The World Conservation Union in Shaping Education for Sustainability" Ch.8 in Wheeler, K. Bijur, A.P. eds Education for a Sustainable Future, new York: Academic/Plenum Publishers
10. MartinMehers G. Calvo S. Auchincloss E and Goldstein W. 2004 "Achieving Environmental Objectives", Bangkok:IUCN and Commission on Education and Communication
11. Palmer J. Goldstein W Curnow A eds 1995 Planning Education to Care for the Earth, Gland Switzerland and Cambridge UK:IUCN
12. Saaed S Goldstein W Shrestha R. eds 1998 Planning Environmental Communication and Education: Lessons from Asia. Bangkok: IUCN Commission on Education and Communication CEC, UNESCO & UNEP.

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