STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS OF SECONDARY LEVEL STUDENTS

All human generated environmental degradations are serious and worsening for the future of earth. uncontrolled anthropogenic activities such as industrialization and urbanization creates a number of environmental problems. Deforestation, soil erosion, bio-diversity loss, pollution, ozone layer depletion, global climate change and over consumption of natural resources are serious problems. In order to make the people aware about those aspects of environment, with which they are associated, it is very important to make every citizen environmentally educated. Environmental education is significant and is the need of today to help citizens to acquire the necessary knowledge and attitude for environmental protection. Environmental awareness and understanding among the people are, at ones, consequences of environmental educational process. Environmental awareness as a global phenomenon is of recent origin. In India Hindu literatures show that environmental awareness was realized even by the Pre- Vedic man.