Torsten Wiedemann

• Ghent University

With the growing awareness of environmental sustainability issues worldwide, there has been a proliferation of responses and measures in the Flanders region of Belgium since late 1980s. While the environmental measures are proliferating, the pervasive growth based economic development pressures have not gone away, leading to the unfolding of a vari...

From 2003 to 2010 primary schools in South Africa have been involved in a project to implement environmental management systems (EMS) into the school management and to reduce the school's environmental impact by introducing an environmental care programme. After the EMS was implemented and the environment was integrated in the curriculum, activitie...

With the aid of universities Environmental Management Systems (EMSs) were developed and implemented in 39 primary schools in Northern Gauteng and Southern Limpopo Provinces, South Africa in 2005. Between 2006 and 2008, the assisting universities monitored the implementation process to evaluate the progress the schools made in environmental manageme...

Quantitative results from Environmental Management Systems (EMS) at primary schools have rarely been examined in literature. This paper presents the monitoring results of environmental care in 39 primary schools in Northern South Africa. During 2 years, after the EMS was implemented in the curriculum and in the school's management, the progress of...

World in Transition: Towards Sustainable Energy Systems, by H. Grasl, J. Kokott, M. Kulessa and J. Luther. Earthscan, 2004. 242pp. ISBN 1‐85383‐882‐9