Environmental Education Strategy - Campbelltown City Council ...

Environmental Education Strategy 2009-2012(i)Campbelltown 2025 Looking ForwardCouncil’s 2025 Looking Forward document was considered in the development ofthis strategy. It provides a long term strategic direction for Council, and wasdeveloped after a significant level of community participation. The documentidentifies six (6) Strategic Directions for Council to address in it’s operations. One ofthese directions is identified “Protecting and enhancing the city’s key environmentalassets”. Campbelltown 2025 Looking Forward also lists the key influences that willplay a part in how the City of Campbelltown will look, feel and function over the next20 years. The environmental influences listed are:• Increasing community awareness of environmental issues and support forconservation of ecological processes and resources;• Depletion of biodiversity (threatened species, endangered ecologicalcommunities etc.) in the face of urbanisation;• Natural resource (such as water, biodiversity, agricultural land etc.)management will refocus on “demand management”;• Emergence of new architectural styles that better respond to climate change,energy efficiency and depletion of natural resources.• The vision encapsulated in Campbelltown 2025 Looking Forward lists desiredenvironmental outcomes in regards to this strategic direction. Those outcomesare:An improved community recognition of the contribution that biodiversity,natural resources and natural environmental features contribute towardour quality of life, fostering broader community stewardship of keyenvironmental assets;The significance of important natural environmental features is protected;The diversity of the City’s indigenous flora and fauna is retained;The health of the City’s rivers and other water resources is enhanced;Clean air and a reduction in local greenhouse gas emissions; andDevelopment and land use matches environmental capacity andcapability.Version 2.03 18/3/10Page 8 of 48