Dear Colleagues,

As Nelson Mandela says, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

Changing the currently dominant consumption models is a huge challenge. This requires people to reflect on their own priorities and to change their attitudes. Education has a special role to play in this process. Education for sustainable development is education that pays attention to interrelationships of the environment, society, economy, and culture.

Conducting forest education classes in the spirit of sustainable development is in line with the modern trend of education.

The necessary conditions for making responsible decisions are:

• Knowledge about the state of the world (including the condition of forests in the world);
• Awareness of the links connecting everyday choices and attitudes to the issue of deforestation or degradation of forests in the world;
• Aroused curiosity about the conditions of production and the origin of everyday products (and the raw materials from which they were made);
• The ability to search for meaningful information on labels (the presence of raw materials that are obtained with harm to the environment; certificates confirming care a friendly production chain).

Education for sustainable development has the ambition to influence the spheres of knowledge, skills, and attitudes at the same time. They are crucial because changing them means your audience actions will make more informed and responsible decisions about their own environmental impact. When we think of the forest in this way, we take into account the multidimensionality and multifaceted functions of the forest. This allows you to enrich and deepen your understanding of the importance of forests for society. Describing activities carried out in forest areas and evaluating them through the prism of sustainability, we must take into account the three main dimensions of the forest: environmental, economic and social.

Dr. Anna Zawadzka
Guest Editor

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