Environmental education for sustainable development

Abstract

Environmental degradation is an alarming issue in the planet. The main reasons behind the problem are industrial revolution and population explosion and high demand of luxury items in the life. Presently, lack of proper education, awareness, knowledge and approach of people towards environment degrades the nature and its resources. Thus, sustainable development appears to be a doom stay approach for various countries across the globe. There is a need of hour to develop a strong environmental education (EE) system with the responsiveness of human towards the nature for sustainability and environmental security. United Nation and various countries are taking active steps in this aspect to develop collaboration with the society. Various initiatives in the form of awareness campaigning and community development programmes are running across various countries of the globe in this connection. This chapter focusses on the major emphasis of EE programmes towards sustainability to develop the awareness and perception on the environmental issues among the students, researcher, policymakers and society. However, success stories rely on the concept of public participation, awareness and knowledge to gain environmental security. Proper policy and planning in-terms of locality and sector-specific approaches are required very much at the present moment. Further the potential role of women along with recognizing traditional culture needs to be recognized for successful implementation of EE on the earth. © 2022 Elsevier Inc.