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Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development

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• INTRODUCTION
  • IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF LOUIS PASTEUR By Philippe Kourilsky, Director-General, Institut Pasteur, Professor at the Collège de France
  • Combining our assets for a better graspunderstanding of environmental and health issues - Paul-Louis Girardot
• Education must play a central role to meet the challenges of sustainable development.
  • The Millennium Development Goals place education, health and the environment at the centre of the challenges to be met by the international community - Koichïro MATSUURA
  • The hygiene revolution in Europe was concomitant with the general progress of society which began with the industrial era. Harvey V. Fineberg
  • The management of water, key to public hygiene and health policies, by William DAB
  • Four concrete concrete examples of a connection between water resources and epidemics in developing countries - Renaud PIARROUX
• Sanitary prevention, a question of training
  • Education for hygiene has played a crucial role in the extension of life expectancy in the beginning of the 19th Century. Velvl W. GREENE
  • The original role of "Health-Promoting Schools", or learning hygiene in school - Jack T. JONES
  • When schools and families work together: some exemplary cases, Loïc MONJOUR
• Training and scientific knowledge : essential components of education
  • Training starts with trainers - Hélène AHRWEILER
  • Extension work is Making knowledge accessible is a job for the experts - Jacqueline McGLADE
  • Scientific education can be put within the reach of children - Georges CHARPAK
• Models must take into account the local context to promote knowledge and training
  • Evaluation as the point of departure to transmit knowledge - Darren SAYWELL
  • How to cope with the complexity of sanitation and environmental models to have an effect on populations - Jacqueline McGLADE
  • The local context conditions the effectiveness of action in favour of development, or how to develop "behavioural skills" - Benoit SILVE
• Beyond the debate between "specialists and activists"
  • Science must not be used to disinform the public - Paul REITER
  • The ethics of scientific communication rest on the relationship to experience - William C. CLARK
• Partnerships between BOTH THE public and THE private sector, A KEY ISSUE FOR DEVELOPMENT
  • Using the methods of Louis Pasteur to encourage cooperation between various actors - William C. CLARK
  • The example of immunization programmes or how to arrive at successful partnerships for concrete objectives - Tore GODAL
  • We must all mobilise - Freddy Karup Pedersen
  • How can cooperation between actors in a market economy be a success? - Pierre Marc JOHNSON
  • Innovation and Accountability: balancing the structures with the purpose of partnerships in the water and sanitation sector - Ken CAPLAN
• Broadening vision and disrupting set ideas...
  • Ruffling attitudes, preconceptions, and ingrained behaviours - Bernard Kouchner
  • Health: the perspective of knowledge - Amartya SEN
  • The example of a company concerned with health and education and with an environmental mission - Henri PROGLIO
  • Scientific expertise must be given its full status in society - Philippe Kourilsky
• BIOGRAPHIES OF PARTICIPANTS

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