International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 3

Environmental Education-Emergence, Principles and Thrust Areas

  • Author:
  • Sumana Mallick Ghosh1, Amal Kumar Ghosh2
  • Total Page Count: 11
  • Page Number: 417 to 427

1Doctoral Student, Education, Fakir Chand College, Diamond Harbour, University of Calcutta

2Associate Professor in Geography, Fakir Chand College, Diamond Harbour, University of Calcutta

Online published on 25 June, 2019.

Abstract

Environment is our intimate, de rigueur and immediate beyond which provides the basics of life. Clean and fresh environment is extremely fundamental for promoting healthy life style for living being. As Environmental Education deals with the proper understanding of safeguarding and nurturing the environment, it is almost essential for protecting the environment with its biological habitat. Environmental Education equips with proper knowledge about awareness generation, standardization of quality of human lives, combating the evils of disorder factors in the environment and thereby to formulate the policy and plan of action for better environmental settings for the benefit of the humankind. The present study asserts on the origin, principles and thrust areas of Environmental Education, the ultimate education through organized efforts and its implementation for the sake of the survival of the whole biotic kingdom.

Keywords

Environment, Education, Programme, Principle, Sustainability