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IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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INTRODUCTION
About Pollution
Present status
Role of Environment Education
TYPES OF POLLUTION
Every day, earth becomes more and more polluted.
Air pollution fills our lungs with deadly substances.
Water pollution is rapidly eradicating what little freshwater we have left.
Land pollution is causing once-fertile lands to become little more than deserts
Awareness about the following issues are needed
Difference between sustainable development and environmental sustainability.
Unique definition for sustainable development
Will depending on Science and Technology alone deliver environmental sustainability
Sustainable development and environmental sustainability
Definition for sustainable development :
“ Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of future
generation to meet their own needs”
The resource base is not inexhaustible
sustainable development is economic development
Without environmental sustainability it is impossible to achieve sustainable development.
Unique definition for sustainable development
An indicator is needed
for comparing the relative progress made by different countries towards sustainable development at a given time or
for measuring progress made by a given country or region over time.
Science, technology and environmental sustainability
Role of science and technology in delivering environmental sustainability:
sustainable development and global environmental sustainability achieved not only with the application of science and technology alone. Example : USA
progress towards sustainable development is dependent upon a fundamental change in societies’ attitude to nature and the environment
to bring about this change of attitude is education in moral and ethical philosophy. In the young minds it is essential to reinforce the environment-respecting moral values
Can science and technology deliver sustainable development
impacts of science and technology
turnout to be good or bad is determined by their environmental impacts.
economic development through industrialization
World Bank and International Monetary Fund
NEED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
All major natural resources in the country are in grave danger of irreparable damage.
A society cannot survive if its natural resources are rendered unfit for use by its people.
The only hope of salvaging this grave situation is by making the young aware that they need to proactively begin to protect the environment they will inherit.
Science and Technology can help in a limited way but cannot deliver it
IMPORTANCE OF WATER RESOURCES
According to the latest census of India statistics, only 38 percent of the 192 million households in India enjoy the privilege of grossly under-priced piped water supply.
“Water is a resource which is much too free.
Under-pricing of this vital resource has ironically put it beyond the reach of the poor majority.
A resource conscious society should carefully calculate the cost — and price — of its natural resources.
Since we haven’t done so, there’s a lot of pilferage and waste.
Water should be a costed resource, only then will we use and save it as a precious resource.
Water management should receive top priority as environment education is introduced in schools and colleges
Effective Handling of EE
Mandating environment education as a boring study subject is the best way to kill it.
Instead it should be introduced as a voluntary, extra-curricular activity to arouse the interest and awareness of students in green issues.
Indeed environment education as a hands-on extra-curricular activity rather than an academic classroom subject is arousing growing enthusiasm across the country.
Enhancing research activities by providing incentives
Understanding environmental behavioural change through
communication
Developing a ‘responsible environmental behaviour’ became one of the tasks of environmental education
The ‘responsible environmental behaviour’ is defined as “ the whole of actions of an individual within the society, that takes into account, in a conscious way, the perennial and harmonious relationship between these actions and environment”.
Communication is a way of approaching and explaining processes in society and it can be defined as “ the exchange processes among the individual and group members of a given society
Conclusion
Effective policy must be implemented to curb consumption by the affluent
We need moral education to instill genuinely environment respecting moral values in the young student society.
Conventional educational methodology is no longer adequate for the real needs of tomorrow
Though there are definitional and implementation flaws, environment NGOs and activists need to be given credit and accolades for creating a nation-wide awareness of the crisis of environment deterioration
[attachment=65461]
INTRODUCTION
About Pollution
Present status
Role of Environment Education
TYPES OF POLLUTION
Every day, earth becomes more and more polluted.
Air pollution fills our lungs with deadly substances.
Water pollution is rapidly eradicating what little freshwater we have left.
Land pollution is causing once-fertile lands to become little more than deserts
Awareness about the following issues are needed
Difference between sustainable development and environmental sustainability.
Unique definition for sustainable development
Will depending on Science and Technology alone deliver environmental sustainability
Sustainable development and environmental sustainability
Definition for sustainable development :
“ Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of future
generation to meet their own needs”
The resource base is not inexhaustible
sustainable development is economic development
Without environmental sustainability it is impossible to achieve sustainable development.
Unique definition for sustainable development
An indicator is needed
for comparing the relative progress made by different countries towards sustainable development at a given time or
for measuring progress made by a given country or region over time.
Science, technology and environmental sustainability
Role of science and technology in delivering environmental sustainability:
sustainable development and global environmental sustainability achieved not only with the application of science and technology alone. Example : USA
progress towards sustainable development is dependent upon a fundamental change in societies’ attitude to nature and the environment
to bring about this change of attitude is education in moral and ethical philosophy. In the young minds it is essential to reinforce the environment-respecting moral values
Can science and technology deliver sustainable development
impacts of science and technology
turnout to be good or bad is determined by their environmental impacts.
economic development through industrialization
World Bank and International Monetary Fund
NEED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
All major natural resources in the country are in grave danger of irreparable damage.
A society cannot survive if its natural resources are rendered unfit for use by its people.
The only hope of salvaging this grave situation is by making the young aware that they need to proactively begin to protect the environment they will inherit.
Science and Technology can help in a limited way but cannot deliver it
IMPORTANCE OF WATER RESOURCES
According to the latest census of India statistics, only 38 percent of the 192 million households in India enjoy the privilege of grossly under-priced piped water supply.
“Water is a resource which is much too free.
Under-pricing of this vital resource has ironically put it beyond the reach of the poor majority.
A resource conscious society should carefully calculate the cost — and price — of its natural resources.
Since we haven’t done so, there’s a lot of pilferage and waste.
Water should be a costed resource, only then will we use and save it as a precious resource.
Water management should receive top priority as environment education is introduced in schools and colleges
Effective Handling of EE
Mandating environment education as a boring study subject is the best way to kill it.
Instead it should be introduced as a voluntary, extra-curricular activity to arouse the interest and awareness of students in green issues.
Indeed environment education as a hands-on extra-curricular activity rather than an academic classroom subject is arousing growing enthusiasm across the country.
Enhancing research activities by providing incentives
Understanding environmental behavioural change through
communication
Developing a ‘responsible environmental behaviour’ became one of the tasks of environmental education
The ‘responsible environmental behaviour’ is defined as “ the whole of actions of an individual within the society, that takes into account, in a conscious way, the perennial and harmonious relationship between these actions and environment”.
Communication is a way of approaching and explaining processes in society and it can be defined as “ the exchange processes among the individual and group members of a given society
Conclusion
Effective policy must be implemented to curb consumption by the affluent
We need moral education to instill genuinely environment respecting moral values in the young student society.
Conventional educational methodology is no longer adequate for the real needs of tomorrow
Though there are definitional and implementation flaws, environment NGOs and activists need to be given credit and accolades for creating a nation-wide awareness of the crisis of environment deterioration