ENVIRONMENTAL

EDUCATION

DEFINITION

HISTORY

GOALS
 ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATION (definition)

Environmental Education is regarded as a

continuing process in which individuals and
the community gain awareness of their
environment and acquire the knowledge
and understanding, values, skills,
experiences and also the determination
which will enable them to act individually
and collectively to solve present and
future environmental problems.
 ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATION (definition)

• It seeks to clarify and harmonise

the ethical, aesthetic, scientific,
technological, socio-economic and
political concerns and values of
individuals and communities, in so
far as these influence their
perception of the environment and
its sustainable use.
 History of
Environmental Education EE

1. Stockholm 1974
2. Tblisi 1977
 Stockholm 1974

• Sweden
• Awareness about Human Ecology
• Overpopulation
• Mismanagement of natural resource
• Pollution
• Degradation of quality of human life…
1.Malta 1991
2.Cabinet Report 1979
 TBILISI 1977

"Environmental education is a process

aimed at developing a world population
that is aware of and concerned about the
total environment and its associated
problems, and which has the knowledge,
attitudes, motivation, commitments, and
skills to work individually and collectively
toward solutions of current problems and
the prevention of new ones."

(from the UNESCO Conference in Tblisi, Georgia, USSR,

1977)
 TBILISI 1977
• The TBLISI DECLARATION provides a set of goals,
objectives, and principles for environmental education,
which have been designed to:
• * FOSTER a clear awareness of, and concern
about, economic, social, and political
interdependence in urban and rural areas;
• * PROVIDE every person with opportunities to
acquire the knowledge, values, attitudes,
commitment, and skills that are needed to protect
and improve the environment; and
• * CREATE new patterns of behaviour for
individuals, groups, and society as a whole,
towards the environment.
 TBILISI 1977

• Understand the complex nature of natural and

built environments
• Effective way in solving environmental
problems
• Management of the quality of the environment
• Awareness, knowledge, attitudes, skills and
participation.
• Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental
Education
 Malta 1991

• ECO The Malta Ecological Foundation

ECO, The Malta Ecological Foundation

 
was set up officially on the 12 August,
1992.              
It is a Non Governmental    Organisation
that is  comprehensive
              in its approach.
It aims to run concrete ecological
programmes and to support and
multiply these efforts through policy,
awareness, and education programmes.
 ECO´s Mission
• ECO aims to conserve nature and ecological
processes in the Maltese Islands by:
- ensuring that the use of renewable
resources is sustainable both now and in the
longer term
- promoting actions to reduce pollution and
the wasteful exploitation and consumption
of resources and energy.
- preserving genetic, species, and ecosystem
diversity
 ECO's ultimate goal

• live in a sustainable manner

• help build a future in which
humans live in harmony with
their environment.
 GOALS OF
ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATION

• The Belgrade Charter (United Nations

Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization-United Nations Environment
Programme [UNESCO-UNEP], 1976) and
the Tiblisi Declaration (UNESCO-UNEP,
1978). The Belgrade Charter provides a
widely accepted goal statement:
 GOALS OF
ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATION (Cont’d)

• The goal of environmental education is to

develop a world population that is aware
of, and concerned about, the environment
and its associated problems, and which
has the knowledge, skills, attitudes,
motivations, and commitment to work
individually and collectively toward
solutions of current problems and the
prevention of new ones.
 The Goals of
Environmental Education:
• 1. Awareness and sensitivity to the environment and
environmental challenges.
• 2. Knowledge and understanding of the environment
and environmental challenges.
• 3. Attitude of concern for the environment and a
motivation to improve or maintain environmental
quality.
• 4. Skills to identify and help resolve environmental
challenges.
• 5. Participation in activities that lead to the resolution
of environmental challenges. *
 Objective EE

promoting environmental awareness

managing areas of natural and scientific interest,and
lobbying for
effective environmental legislation.”
ensuring that the use of renewable resources is
sustainable both now and in the longer term

promoting actions to reduce pollution and the wasteful

exploitation and consumption of resources and
energy.

preserving genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity