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Young people, education, and sustainable development 357 Contributor biographies Ashton, Melanie Australia Melanie Ashton is a young independent environmental policy consultant,development specialist, and writer. She holds a Master’s in Environment and Development rom the London School o Economics and Political Sciences and aBachelor o Science, with Honours, rom the University o Melbourne. Melanie’s current clients include several Pacic Island governments, aid agencies, consulting rms, and the International Institute or Sustainable Development. Melanie has ahistory o working with the Small Island Developing States o the Pacic Region. She was the eam Leader on the Australian Government unded Persistent Organic Pollutants in Pacic Island Countries Project, which was implementedrom 2003-2008. In this role, she oversaw and managed the collection o over 100 tonnes o toxic chemicals rom Pacic countries. Melanie continues to provide consulting services directly to Pacic Island governments in the area o chemicalsmanagement and, specically, in implementing the requirements o multilateral environment agreements, including the Stockholm Convention. Melanie also provides advice to aid agencies, including the Agence Française de Développement, and consulting rms or whom she has undertaken project designs on regional initiatives to address solid and hazardous waste management in the Pacic region, as well as the design o a und or a waste-und or the region. Melanie is a Tematic Expert on Chemicals or the ISSD’s Earth Negotiations Bulletin . Beirute, Nicole Jirón Costa Rica Nicole Jirón Beirute holds a Master’s degree rom the University o Costa Rica(UCR), with a concentration on social policies. She has been certied as amediator by the Costa Rican Ministry o Justice. Nicole’s work with the EarthCharter (EC) promoted the initiative or the political student movement o theUCR, expanding it through several regions in Costa Rica as part o the Costa Rican core group. Later, she became part o the International Youth Earth CharterCoalition, producing in 2001 a series o our musical concerts to promote the ECto Costa Rican youth. In subsequent years, she worked or the local government o Curridabat, Costa Rica, promoting cultural policies, participating as a socialdialogue acilitator, and developing community events. Nicole has extensive experience in youth political participation training processes having coordinated or three years Agentes de Cambio, a Friedrich Ebert Foundation program or youth democratic participation development in Costa Rica. Currently, she is onthe Executive Direction eam at the Foundation or Peace and Democracy, oneo the most recognised democracy-oriented non-governmental organisations in 358 Young people, education, and sustainable developmentContributor biographies Latin America, working with international cooperation unded programs relatedto social conict, democracy, environment, and migration processes. Beltram, Gordana Slovenia Gordana Beltram has worked or nature conservation since 1983. Having obtaineda degree in geography in Slovenia, she deended her Ph.D. thesis in Human Ecology, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, on conservation and management o wetlands in Slovenia in the context o the European policy related to wetlands. During her post-graduate studies she was a researcher at the Forestry Department o the Biotechnical Faculty at University o Ljubljana. Gordana has been working at the Ministry o the Environment and Spatial Planning o the Republic o Slovenia where she is responsible or the implementation o the Convention o Biological Diversity, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, and the World Heritage Convention in Slovenia, as well as dierent issues related to biodiversity conservation at regional or sub-regional levels. At the national level, she also works closely with protected areas and the Slovenian Ramsar sites on conservation, legal protection, managementand awareness-raising o wetlands. Gordana is particularly interested in young people’s roles in environmental communication, education, and public awareness. Bentley, Matthew Australia Matthew Bentley is a Programme Ofcer at the United Nations Environment Programme, Division o echnology, Industry, and Economics. He is responsible or activities that encourage the development o national programmes on sustainableconsumption and production (SCP) as major contributions to the United NationsMarrakech Process on SCP. Matthew has a doctorate in International Relationsand Diplomacy and worked previously at the Australian Agency or International Development in Canberra, Australia, and the Royal Melbourne Institute echnology in Melbourne, Australia. Bergmann, Iris Australia Iris Bergmann is Research Fellow at Royal Melbourne Institute o echnology (RMI) within the Learning Cities Programme o the RMI Global Cities Institute. Tere, her work ocuses on ways in which collaboration across the civil society,government, private, and educational sectors can contribute to the sustainability o cities and communities through lielong learning. Previously, she has been involved in a number o organisations in the arts, especially photography, as wellas education and conservation sectors in Germany and Australia. Young people, education, and sustainable development 359Contributor biographies Chalub-Martins, Leila Brazil Leila Chalub-Martins studied at the University o Brasilia, where she earned a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology. Leila earned a doctorate in Social Sciences and Social Anthropology rom the State University o Campinas. Currently, she isan adjunct proessor at the University o Brasília. She is a researcher and teacherat the School o Education and at the Center or Sustainable Development, whereshe leads the Complexity Laboratory. She has experience in the eld o education, primarily in the ollowing areas: Brazilian culture, cultural diversity, environmental education, eld education, complexity, sustainability, environment, conservation,and sustainable development. Chawla, Louise USA Louise Chawla is a Proessor in the College o Architecture and Planning at the University o Colorado, where she is an advisor or the Children, Youth, andEnvironments Center or Research and Design and co-editor o the journal Children, Youth, and Environments . Her interest in children’s inormal learning in their communities led her to a Master’s in Education and Child Developmentrom Bryn Mawr College, ollowed by a doctorate in Environmental Psychology rom the City University o New York. She has written widely on children andnature, children in cities, and the development o environmental activism. Her publications include the books In the First Country o Places: Nature, Poetry and Childhood Memory (SUNY Press 1994) and the co-authored collection Growing Up in an Urbanizing World (UNESCO 2002). When she served as a Fulbright Scholar at the Norwegian Centre or Child Research, she revived the Growing Upin Cities project o UNESCO, which continues to involve children in cities around the world in evaluating and improving their local communities. Te projectwon the 2002 Place Research Award rom the Environmental Design Research Association. She is currently involved in promoting design or children’s natureplay in residential neighbourhoods. Corcoran, Peter Blaze USA Peter Blaze Corcoran is Proessor o Environmental Studies and Environmental Education at Florida Gul Coast University, where he serves as Director o theCenter or Environmental and Sustainability Education. He has been a aculty member at College o the Atlantic, Swarthmore College, and Bates College, and a visiting proessor in Australia, the Netherlands, and Fiji. He works extensively ininternational environmental education with a special interest in the South Pacic Island Nations. He is among the ounders o the Global Higher Education or Sustainability Partnership and has conducted their consultations with stakeholders 360 Young people, education, and sustainable developmentContributor biographies in tertiary education in many regions o the world. He is Past President o theNorth American Association or Environmental Education. Corcoran is on thePresident’s Advisory Council o the National Wildlie Federation. He serves as Senior Fellow in Education or Sustainability at University Leaders or a Sustainable Future in Washington, D.C., and is Senior Advisor to Earth Charter Internationalin San Jose, Costa Rica. His recent books are A Voice or Earth: American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter with A. James Wohlpart, University o Georgia Press (2008), Te Earth Charter in Action: oward a Sustainable World with Mirian Vilela and Alide Roerink published in the Netherlands by Royal ropical Institute (KI) Publishers (2005), and Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability: Contestation, Critique, Practice, and Promise with Arjen Wals published in the Netherlands by Kluwer Academic Press (2004). Corriero, Jennifer Canada Named by the World Economic Forum as a ‘Young Global Leader’, Jennier Corriero is a Canadian innovator with a passion or engaging youth and leveraging online networks as a tool or community development. Jennier is co-ounderand Executive Director o akingIGlobal, a nonprot organisation with theaim o ostering cross-cultural dialogue, strengthening the capacity o youthas leaders, and increasing awareness and involvement in global issues through the use o technology. Te website currently has over 145,000 members in over200 countries and receives over one million hits each day. Jennier received her Master’s in Environmental Studies at York University in oronto, and has beenan advisor and manager o numerous capacity-building initiatives. Jennier has served on the Ofcial Canadian Government Delegation to the World Summit onthe Inormation Society. Damen, Maayke The Netherlands Maayke Damen is the current ofcial youth delegate to the United NationsCommission on Sustainable Development. She was born at Curacao in 1986 and moved to the Netherlands at the age o two. She currently studies CulturalAnthropology/ Developmental Studies, and Political Science at Leiden University in Leiden, the Netherlands. In 2009, she will receive her Bachelor’s Degree ater nalising her thesis on sustainable development. Maayke is actively involved in various student organisations, including CoolClimate, initiated by the Dutch Green Party. She currently works or Maurits Groen Environment & Communication, a Dutch consultancy which unctions as a bridge between the government, business, and civil society. Young people, education, and sustainable development 361Contributor biographies Donahoo, Daniel Australia Daniel Donahoo is the author o Idolising Children (New South Books 2007) and a Fellow with public policy think tank OzProspect. He consults on child andamily policy, and his work and ideas appear regularly in the Australian media. Hehas been publishing online since 1995. Daniel lives with his wie and two boys inCentral Victoria. Fien, John Australia John Fien is Proessor o Sustainability at the Royal Melboune Institute o echnology (RMI) in Melbourne, Australia, and Director o the Learning Cities Programme o the RMI Global Cities Institute. He has an interdisciplinary background in teacher education, community development, natural resourcemanagement, public participation, and education or sustainable development,and is actively engaged in research on youth culture and sustainability. Johnhas completed 20 unded research projects and published over 100 papers on education, training, and capacity building or sustainability. He is the lead author and instructional designer o UNESCO’s major international training programmes on sustainable development, eaching and Learning or a Sustainable Future.He has also planned and acilitated workshops or Organisation or Economic Cooperation and Development, World Wildlie Federation, UNEP, UNESCO, and the Institute or Global Environmental Strategies in Korea, Japan, China, Malaysia, Tailand, Brunei, Maldives, Philippines and South Arica. John is a member o theAustralian National Commission or UNESCO and o the International ReerenceGroup or the United Nations Decade o Education or Sustainable Development. In 2007, he chaired the UNESCO Working Group on Water Education or Sustainable Development. Gadotti, Moacir Brazil Moacir Gadotti has a doctorate in Educational Sciences rom the University o Geneva. He is Proessor o Philosophy o Education at the University o São Paulo and Director o the Paulo Freire Institute. He is author o many widely-read and translated books, including Invitation to Read Paulo Freire (1988), Historyof Pedagogical Ideas (1993), Pedagogy of Praxis (1994), Pedagogy of the Earth (2001), Te Masters of Rousseau (2004), and o Educate for Another Possible World (2007). At Paulo Freire Institute, he develops educational proposals oriented by the paradigm o sustainability.
