Contemporary Regional Issues in Sustainability : Prospective Application for Activation of Local Community and University Education from an International Seminar

Employment of the education for sustainable development (ESD) is one of the important issues for the innovation of university education. ESD includes key sustainable development issues such as poverty, social design, commercialization, community participation and livelihood from the global standpoint of view. An international sustainable seminar was held in Malaysia to share the concept for sustainability in 2016. As the result, the concept for sustainability or sustainable society was shown to have diversity. It is suggested that a practical study for the diversity of the idea for sustainability has a potential to consider the concurrent global issues from the historical point of view. Such an international collaboration sharing the concept for sustainability will be an effective way for surveying the new field of a research for sustainability in the regional society and an innovation of University education employing ESD.