Environmental Education Rural Impact Sustainability In And Around Chandrapur

Abstract

A most powerful tool that makes an individual to know about the environmental issues, madethem to think about consequences and also develop an urgeto takeaction to protect the nature is environmental education. Infact, many researchers and the policy makers time totime pointed about the importance of environmental education to achieve the goal of sustainable development. Various environmental issues such as air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, deforestation and global warming were faced by urban areas while rural region also had environmental problems like domestic waste management, desertification, lack of health care facilities, lack of pure drinking water facilities, sanitation, and environmental pollution included water, air and soil. The troubles facedby rural population was quietly dissimilar from the urban as rural population were generally reliant on their land for their survival. It considered that rural people had their traditional knowledge with great depth of perception and generally feels for environmental issues as these affect their daily lives. The study of rural areas from the sustainable development perspective requires a complex and detail analysis of the interaction between economic, socio-cultural, environmental and political-institutional dimensions. Environment is the foundation and support of human existence and survivaland the guarantee of sustainable human development; environmental protection hasundoubtedly become a common understanding and development strategy of all countriesof the world. Rural livelihoods have a strong bond with nature. In addition, the formation of the built environment in the countryside, in the context of rural residential units is clearly influenced by their natural environment. Environmental education is an ideal tool to improve the situation which could be effective in bringing the sustainability in rural areas.Owingtothese,an attemptwascarriedouttoevaluatetheenvironmentaleducation amongrural population and also to measurethesustainabilityofthat rur