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Christ, Laura; Dreesmann, Daniel C. – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Nature conservation and environmental protection are not only visible in the media, but also play a role in the everyday life of young people, as evidenced by 'Fridays for Future', a demonstration for climate justice. To facilitate the embedding of conservation in school contexts, this study addresses the ideas and approaches which students have…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Conservation (Environment), Natural Resources, Ecology
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Balbuena-Hernandez, Rosa Iris; Sampedro-Rosas, Maria Laura; Rodriguez-Herrera, America Libertad; Bedolla-Solano, Ramon; Soto-Rios, Maria de Lourdes; Carrasco-Urrutia, Katya Aimee – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2023
The New Culture of Water (NCW) is a catalyst for sustainable transformation between political agreements and the unsustainability of the real world, thus requiring an integral participation for an efficient water management where the academy will try to make a substantial contribution. Therefore, this study aimed to design, implement and evaluate…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Political Attitudes, Water Quality, Environmental Education
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Goldenberg, Marni; Schwab, Keri; Bilhorn, Terra; Murray, June – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2023
The Pacific Crest Trail is a National Scenic Trail that runs from Mexico to Canada. Use of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) has increased in the past 20 years. It is important to understand how an increase in use can impact the environment and sustainable practices, land management practices, and the hiker experience. Participants included 15 land…
Descriptors: Parks, Recreational Activities, Land Use, Sustainability
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Paz, Marta; Teixeira, Isabel; Lima, Dulce – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2022
The world is overcoming an unprecedented challenge with the COVID-19 pandemic's worldwide spread. Epidemics and pandemics are part of history. The oldest records are related to the plague of Athens in 430 BC and throughout times numerous other diseases affected humankind, devastating societies. Nowadays, the global world allows rapid communication…
Descriptors: Pandemics, Ethics, Climate, Scientific Research
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Choate, Beth; Davis, Brittany Y.; Verrecchia, Jacqueline – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify how to reduce bottled water use on our campus, given that the majority of students were bringing it onto campus from outside sources. Bottled water bans have been implemented on several college and university campuses in an effort to reduce the consumption of bottled water and the associated…
Descriptors: Water, Conservation (Environment), Sustainability, Universities
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Dal, Burçkin; Alper, Umut; Özdem-Yilmaz, Yasemin; Öztürk, Nilay; Sönmez, Duygu – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2015
Public awareness of the negative effects of climate change is vital since it leads to collective action for prevention and adaptation. However, investigations on to what extent people are aware of the climate change issue are rare in the literature. The present study reported the adaptation process of awareness to climate change questionnaire into…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Climate, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
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Davis, Rochelle, Ed. – State Education Standard, 2012
Bill Thompson, Director of Facilities for Lockport Township High School in Illinois, first considered starting a green cleaning program after his janitors became dizzy when using a traditional chemical floor stripper. Thompson started introducing green products gradually at Lockport Township High, and now almost all of the cleaning agents used at…
Descriptors: Sanitation, Program Implementation, School Maintenance, Conservation (Environment)
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Oberkircher, Lisa; Hornidge, Anna-Katharina – Rural Sociology, 2011
Khorezm Province is located in the Amu Darya lowlands of Uzbekistan, where unsustainable use of irrigation water has led to the Aral Sea crisis. This study deals with the question of how farmers in Khorezm perceive water and its management and how this facilitates or prevents water conservation, or "water saving," in irrigated…
Descriptors: Water Quality, Water, Agricultural Occupations, Environmental Education
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Erdogan, Mehmet; Ok, Ahmet; Marcinkowski, Thomas Joseph – Environmental Education Research, 2012
Though environmentally responsible behavior (ERB) has been a focus of many studies in the field of environmental education, very few scales have been developed to assess children's ERB. In this regard, this article focuses on the development and validation of Children's Responsible Environmental Behavior Scale (CREBS) and also reports the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Environmental Education, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals)
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Abu-Hola, Imfadi – Education, 2009
Man's relationship with the environment is crucial. He can use its natural resources, but not in jest. No damaging or overuse behavior should be the dominant behavior. Religious values and rules play an important role in achieving the balance in the environment. One big goal of Islam is to make the life easy and safe. Moreover, in Islamic…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Islamic Culture, Islam, Pollution
Springer, Tim; Haver, Roark – Resource Recycling, 1994
Examined the results of public education waste prevention workshops whose goal was to reduce waste by 5%. Workshop participants reduced waste by 5.6% compared to nonparticipants. Describes the program, survey methods utilized, and cost effectiveness of the program. (MDH)
Descriptors: Community Education, Conservation (Environment), Cost Effectiveness, Ecology
Great Lakes United, Buffalo, NY. – 1990
The purpose of this report is to present the issues surrounding biomonitoring of wastewaters discharged into the Great Lakes Basin. Biomonitoring is the process of using organisms to monitor the toxicity of a substance. The report reflects an interest in seeing zero discharge of toxic pollutants in the Great Lakes region. The report is organized…
Descriptors: Community Education, Environment, Environmental Education, Environmental Standards
Bai, Heesoon – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2004
In addressing the theme of ethics as an everyday activity, this essay makes a case for the primacy of preventive ethics over interventional ethics. Preventive ethics aims at creating a condition of viability and wellbeing for all members of the earth community, an ethical ideal that follows from the thesis that all life-phenomena are…
Descriptors: Ethics, Prevention, Intervention, Holistic Approach