Enhancement of Women's participation in Environmental Sustainability through Empowerment-a Proposed Model

Sustainability is now one of the global challenges. Present study focused on the relation of autonomy in decision making and participation in environmental sustainability as expansion of choice rather decision making one of the major dimension of empowerment. Women empowerment and their participation in Following the result it tried to propose an integrated model that could be implemented through holistic approach of education. 350 women as sample form two islands, namely Sagar and Ghoramara of Sagar block were observed and found significant role of Self Help Groups toward both empowerment and sustainability. The study followed Quasi mixed research design it triangulated with both quantitative and qualitative tools. The findings of the study lead to the newer research problems yet to be studied.