Taking into account the crucial role the Year could play, inter alia, in raising public awareness of the importance for sustainable development of the Earth's processes and resources; disaster prevention, reduction and mitigation; and capacity-building for the sustainable management of resources; and its important contribution to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development,
考虑到国际地球年能够发挥关键的作用，除其他外，能提高民众认识地球的变化过程和资源的可持续发展、灾难的防备、减少和缓解以及可持续管理资源的能力建设的重要性，并考虑到其对联合国教育促进可持续发展十年的重要贡献，