Environmental Science and Sustainable Development: Educating Students about It

Chitra Singh¹

Section:Review Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.2 , Issue.4 , pp.7-14, Apr-2016

Online published on Apr 27, 2016

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Abstract :
The United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) in its 1987 report ‘Our Common Future’ defines sustainable development as: "Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Under the principles of the United Nations Charter ‘The MillenniumDeclaration’ identified principles and treaties on sustainable development, including economic development, social development and environmental protection.Broadly defined, sustainable development is a systems approach to growth and development and to manage natural, produced, and social capital for the welfare of their own and future generations..Issues of sustainability are inherently complex and constantly changing. It is therefore crucial to address these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective also. Courses should be designed to broaden the students’ perspective on questions and challenges related to sustainable development, and at the same time provide opportunities to deepen knowledge in relevant fields. Students should also learn how to use relevant analytical tools for studies of environmental change concerning sustainable development. They should know how can the contribution of Science & Technology to sustainability be improved? They should also know if science is so useful, why we don’t invest more of it in this aspect of development. This paper aims to achieve this byproviding material on relevant and practical activities that engage students in sustainability in his classroom thus paving the way for a sustainable future and its green aspects.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Environmental Sciences, Sustaiable Develpoment, Teach

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