1. ASEAN Socio-cultural Community: Green and Sustainable ASEAN
Jiragorn Gajaseni

2. Learning objectives: within 3 hours!!!!
To achieve Green and Sustainable ASEAN
To inspire new generation
Good ASEAN Citizen-Good ASEAN Keeping
Common but Differentiated Responsibility,
“Connect Globally, Think ASEAN, Act Locally”
To raise environmental awareness
To provide set of principles, concepts, and main ideas
Environmental worldview
Decisions and Actions

3. Suggested key contents
States of natural capital and environment in ASEAN
Challenging environmental problems and unsustainable development in ASEAN
Environmental and natural resources management in ASEAN
How shall Green and Sustainable ASEAN be achieved?
All critical key words, principles, concepts and main ideas of environmental sciences for sustainability
Self-learning and critical thinking development

4. Short list of teaching materials
Green and Sustainable ASEAN The ASEAN Charter Roadmap for an ASEAN Community Fourth ASEAN State of the Environment Report 2009 Central Intelligent Agency World Factbook Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis. Miller, G.Tyler and S.E. Spoolman, Living in the Environment. 17th ed. Website:

5. Introduction to the materials and related contents
Overarching Theme:
Green and Sustainable ASEAN
Carrying Out the Theme:
Principles of Sustainability
Ecological Security
The Guideline :
“Connect Globally, Think ASEAN, Act Locally”

6. ASEAN’s Spirit: “One Vision, One Identity, One Community”
Facts of ASEAN
Geographical Features
Natural Capital

7. Connect Globally Global Mega-trends Human Society Divided
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Gap Analysis:
Knowledge, Information and Communication,
Policy, Action

8. Think ASEAN Facts of ASEAN Geographical Features Natural Capitals
Snap Shot of Catastrophic
Environmental Problems
Ecological Security
Environmental Impacts
National Policy and Action as an Obstacle
to Sustainable Forest Management
Sustainable Environmental and Natural Resources Management
Blueprint for Green ASEAN
Key Lessons Learnt
Climate Change and ASEAN

9. Act Locally Guidelines for Sustainable Development
Environmentally Literate and ASEAN Coalition
Common but Differentiated Responsibility
First Step Forward Toward Green and Sustainable ASEAN

10. Clear and Present Dangers
Snap Shot of Catastrophic Environmental Problems
Environmental Impacts
Key Lessons Learnt
Climate Change and ASEAN

11. Good but Not Enough
Sustainable Environmental and Natural Resources Management
Blueprint for Green ASEAN
National Policy and Action as an Obstacle to Sustainable Forest Management of ASEAN

12. Inspiration, Promise, Hope
Environmentally Literate and ASEAN Coalition
Common but Differentiated Responsibility

13. Inclusiveness of Environmental Sciences for Sustainability: “Connect Globally, Think ASEAN, Act Locally”
Sustainable development, Guidelines for Sustainable Development, Natural capital, Ecosystem goods and services, 4 functions of nature, Life-support environment, Carrying capacity, Environmental impacts, EIA, SEA, Ecological risks, Health risks, Ecological footprint, Ecological security, Precautionary principle, Common but differentiated responsibility principle, Environmental literacy, Ostrom’s Collective Action Theory, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, MDG, IPCC,

14. Self-learning and Critical Thinking
Individual and/or Group Study:
Local Cases in ASEAN’s context
linkage to the 3 Critical Questions
How does the earth work?
How do we interact with the earth?
How can we deal with the environmental problems
and unsustainable development?