Environmental education for sustainable development: Perspectives from Russia

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the issue of developing environmental education in Russia with the purpose of ensuring sustainable development of social and natural environments. In particular, the papers focuses on the place of environmental education in the educational system of Russia, discusses main provisions of the federal state educational standards, very briefly reviews the key challenges to environmental education in Russia in the context of sustainable development, and analyses possible application of environmental education, for instance in education of children with limited health opportunities.