Environmental education: A bridge between man and environment

The Environment is both physical and biological concept including living and non-living components. The physical components include land, air and water where as biological components are plants, animals including man, his functions organizations and institutions. Environment and society are closely related and they are interdependent. Social Components are very important to determine the role of educational institutions. The educational process helped in the development of different structures of society on one hand, the quality of environment on the other hand. Education is the creature and creator of Society. The structure of the society is evolved by the process of education. The educational process utilizes the natural environment and its resources. Different social structures depend on the environment and leads to social change and social control which are essential to utilize resources of the environment. The article deals with the present environmental conditions which urged the need for environmental awareness in the form of environmental education. It talks about the various aspects and components related to environmental education, then objectives of the same formulated at the Tbilist conference (UNE SCO, 1997) have been discussed in detail. Lastly it reflect how the education of environment has put a powerful positive impact on the physical, biological, cultural and psychological environment of man which leads to sustainable development of a country (The utmost goal of man kind).