THE PERCEPTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE, GLOBAL WARMING AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS ENERGY AND WATER UNIVERSITAS NEGERI JAKARTA STUDENTS

Environmental education is assumed to have a significant influence on the environmental awareness, everyday lifestyles and attitude behavior of students. Several higher education institutions have recently recognized the importance of integrating sustainability issues into education to make this impact focused and explicit. This paper explores the relationship strength between environmental education and environmental knowledge, attitudes and reported actual behavior of high school students, providing a comparative questionnaire survey analysis which is unique in the literature. The results show a strong correlation between the intensity of environmental education and the environmental knowledge of students and attitude in relation to energy consumption, water comsumption and global warming knowledge