25-01-2013, 10:03 AM
ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS IN ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
ABSTRACT
As the results of these efforts, many developing countries are now equipped with environmental legal frameworks and some had already introduced market mechanisms to improve environmental qualities. However, these countries are still facing the worsening environmental quality. The difficulties that these nations face are not only the lack of legal and economic framework for environmental protection but the institutional weakness, political and economic turmoil and non-participatory decision making process because these make impossible to maintain the continuity in environmental policy. Considering these institutional, political and financial constraints and effectiveness in applying the information strategy is focused as a new instrument to improve the situation by providing information in an attempt to strengthen the existing legal and economic framework as well as to promote participation of people in pro-environmental behaviour. Provision of information may compose the important part in environment management because it induces participation of people and through this involvement of people make maintain the policy continuity and implementation possible at most cost effective manner.