Education for Sustainable Development and Environmental Ethics

In the conditions of a global crisis education represents the most efficient way of forming a social and intellectual basis for the implementation of sustainable development principles and coevolution ideas. Due to mounting problems related to sustainable development the need of education for sustainable development continues growing. The article views the contemporary state of education for sustainable development (ESD). ESD is regarded as a way of forming of new consciousness and behavior through which human development course should be adjusted. A positive role of environmental ethics in the creation and development of ESD is shown. The experience of the Baikal region in the implementation of the ESD concept on the principles of environmental ethics is considered. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.