scholarly journals Promoting Education for Sustainable Development: Roles of Teacher

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pramila Bakhati

Human beings are considered as the most intellectual living beings in this Universe because they are able to cope with all the natural resources for their personal needs and preserving the things as well. Due to the growing population and immense using of resources, the things which we get from the nature are being destroyed by using in improper way. Our common home: the Earth is now in crisis as a result of limited awareness, egotism and understanding about the real values of nature and natural resources. In this problematic situation, Sustainable Development (SD) is emerged as a window of hope and later Education for Sustainable Developed (ESD) is appeared to promote the SD. However, if the knowledge is not transformed into behavior and practical life, the knowledge will be nothing or the meaningless.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jtd.v1i0.13086 Journal of Training and Development Vol.1 2015: 21-26

Author(s):  
Rusli Rusli

This paper explores curriculum 2013 in conjunction with education for sustainable development in Indonesia. Reorientation in education could be considered as an effort for producing skilled human resources in order to deal with transition period toward sustainable development. Curriculum 2013 should be focused on issues referring to education for sustainable development. Learning approach in curriculum 2013 should be combined with educational learning and teaching about knowledge, issues, skills, perspective, and values that lead to student much more motivate to achieve the goals of sustainable development through respect- ful to the others either current generation or the next generation, respectful to the earth that provides natural resources for the human beings.


2013 ◽  
Vol 694-697 ◽  
pp. 3636-3641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hung Yi Tsai ◽  
Wen Chin Chen

Entering the 20th century, human technology keeps changing constantly and is developing with high acceleration. Intelligent information communication services not only shorten the communication distance on earth but also bring multiple life-convenient tools. Sustainable development has become the critical issue that all human beings would inevitably face with, take responsibility, and think about deeply. On one hand, industrial pioneers and initiatives have motivated technological development; on the other hand, it even would abuse the earths natural resources; hence, business organizations need to pay more attention to conserve resources and manage their environmental impact. In other words, at the same time taking natural resources from the earth, organizations should think about how to give feedback to the earth. Consequently, organizations are enforced to make great efforts in becoming responsible earth citizens and doing well on enterprise ethics as well as improving corporate social responsibility to the utmost. This would cause the whole society to focus more on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the awareness of carrying out human beings natural duty of enhancing sustainable development of human and the earth. In this study, a questionnaire survey to verify the validity of its affiliates.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-265
Author(s):  
Dr.Navdeep Kaur

Since its evolution environment has remained both a matter of awe and concern to man. The frontier attitude of the industrialized society towards nature has not only endangered the survival of all other life forms but also threatened the very existence of human life. The realization of such potential danger has necessitated the dissemination of knowledge and skill vis-a-vis environment protection at all stages of learning. Therefore, learners of all stages of learning need to be sensitized with a missionary zeal. This may ensure transformation of students into committed citizens for averting global environment crisis. The advancement of science and technology made the life more and more relaxed and man also became more and more ambitious. With such development, human dependence on environment increased. He consumed more resources and the effect of his activities on the environment became more and more detectable. Environment covers all the things present around the living beings and above the land, on the surface of the earth and under the earth. Environment indicates, in total, all of peripheral forces, pressures and circumstances, which affect the life, nature, behaviour, growth, development and maturation of living beings. Irrational exploitation (not utilization) of natural resources for our greed (not need) has endangered our survival, and incurred incalculable harm. Environmental Education is a science, a well-thought, permanent, lasting and integrated process of equipping learning experiences for getting awareness, knowledge, understanding, skills, values, technical expertise and involvement of learners with desirable attitudinal changes about their relationship with their natural and biophysical environment. Environmental Education is an organized effort to educate the masses about environment, its functions, need, importance, and especially how human beings can manage their behaviour in order to live in a sustainable manner.  The term 'environmental awareness' refers to creating general awareness of environmental issues, their causes by bringing about changes in perception, attitude, values and necessary skills to solve environment related problems. Moreover, it is the first step leading to the formation of responsible environmental behaviour (Stern, 2000). With the ever increasing development by modern man, large scale degradation of natural resources have been occurred, the public has to be educated about the fact that if we are degrading our environment we are actually harming ourselves. To encourage meaningful public participation and environment, it is necessary to create awareness about environment pollution and related adverse effects. This is the crucial time that environmental awareness and environmental sensitivity should be cultivated among the masses particularly among youths. For the awareness of society it is essential to work at a gross root level. So the whole society can work to save the environment.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Jim F. Raborar

Abstract Development is an innate manifestation on earth. It is not even surprising that the world has developed tremendously over the past decade considering the development in the previous decades. That is, development precipitates development. Therefore, even though everybody can see what risks it brings to the earth, we cannot simply restrain it. Of course, we cannot restrain it. The bottomline is that we have no choice but to be part of the development and be one of those who assist in the ever spontaneous development by trying to minimize its unwanted effects to the planet and its inhabitantants, the humans. Even looking at the ‘development’ from one’s own microcosm, we can perceive that as we go through life and gain some of what this world can offer, we produce tons and tons of wastes. These wastes, which are naturally not part of the earth, pollute and disrupt the natural processes of the planet. It is also simple to notice that the fundamental cause of the depletion of the earth’s natural resources was definitely proportional to the increase in population and to the development itself. Here lies one of the underlying global problems at hand aside from poverty, hunger, low access to education, and other socio-anthropological issues we have, this is the issue on natural resources depletion. Even to worldleaders from well-developed countries can recognize that they will also be the ones at the receiving end of this problem. It is basic that living organisms rely on their environment or the abiotic factors, to live sustainably. Considering these problems, the United Nations, with the worldleaders as its composition, has come up with strategies that advocate development while keeping the earth’s natural resources from depletion or the earth’s natural processes from disruption. This advocacy is called Sustainable Development. Sustainable Development is the development that meets the need of the present generation without compromising the ability of the next generation to meet their own needs. It is, at its core, an advocacy for futurism and the next generation. Sustainable Development is primarily anchored with the case of the “carrying capacity” of the planet Earth. It was already implied by several natural scientists as well as social scientists that indeed the Planet Earth increasingly finds it hard to sustain the needs of the human races because of overpopulation. These things result to poverty and hunger around the world. On the otherhand, it is increasing implied that most of the Natural Resources of the planet goes to the well-developed countries, leaving the developing and underdeveloped countries with meager resources. This further increases cases of hunger and poverty. Although it is deceptive that the call for a sustainable development should take its toll on the countries with bigger economy since they consume the most and pollute the most, it is very definite that there should be a much more intensive application in developing countries since we are just about to experience what the rest of the developed countries have already experienced. More importantly, developing countries should advocate Sustainable Development since it is a common knowledge that even if they contribute least to the causes of natural resource depletion and disruption of natural processes, they are the ones who suffer most from the devastating effects of unsustainable development. As citizens of the Republic of the Philippines, we are one of those who suffer most.


2020 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 11011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Van Anh Thi Duong ◽  
Lyudmila Pushkareva

Development society brings many benefits to people and also brings many challenges. Those challenges seriously affect sustainable economic development, the life and health of all people in society. At present, issues that the whole society has been facing are: hygiene, food safety, environmental pollution, new epidemics, and exhaust of natural resources as well as warming up of the earth... To limit and solve the aforementioned issues, it needs close cooperation and support from all people and enterprises. Every individual, every organization is a part of society. The development of each individual and each enterprise is also the development of society and vice versa. The rise of society will also have a positive impact on each member of it. Therefore, enterprises need to raise awareness about sustainable development and act responsibly with the community and society. It is necessary and useful not only for enterprises themselves but also for the whole society. In this thesis, the author focuses on addressing the following issues: Carrying out social responsibilities associated with environmental protection in order to sustainably develop of Vietnamese enterprises, thereby finding the causes and proposing solutions to help enterprises fulfill their social responsibilities and protect the green, clean and beautiful environment in accordance with the standards prescribed by the Law on Environment of Vietnam in 2014.


2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-332
Author(s):  
Catherine Larrère ◽  

“Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life on Earth.” How can we understand Jonas’ “maxim”? Is it too anthropocentric to be of any interest for an environmental ethic? Is is too limited to survival to have a moral signification in a truly human ethic? One can argue first that it is not so much anti-Kantian than that it challenges the current prevailing “presentism” and obliges us to take into consideration not only future generations, but also the context in which one anticipates these future generations to be living. Therefore, we can distinguish two different interpretations of Jonas’ maxim: in a first stage, that of sustainable development, it was understood as taking into consideration not only the needs but also the rights of future generations; in a second stage, that of an Anthropocene and ecological transition, it means that making sense of humanity implies connecting human beings to the Earth and other living beings far from opposing them.


Author(s):  
Manjari Agnihotri

The word eco-friendly is actually derived from Ecosystem which is related to human beings and their habits. The term eco-friendly means those steps which are friendly to our ecosystem and environment, that do not hurt our earth’s health and wealth. Earth is the wonderful creation of god. To save this beauty nature keeps balance among environmental components through ecosystem. If it is disturbed in any case, it affects the health of the earth. Environment is our natural heritage, and as a social creature it is the moral duty of every person to save this valuable property. So to save this environment, we should be eco-friendly. Basically environment is made up of biotic and abiotic components present around us. They all maintain clean, balanced, perfect environment by keeping a proper balance and relation. Our environment is a rich source of natural resources.


Author(s):  
Ibraheem M . Aliyas

<em>The military actions in Iraq most challenge influenced to each life types especially on sustainable development which representing by environment such as (biosphere ;soil, water resources &amp; air) ,social and economic,  spawned the negatively traces for all sectors  of sustainable development , in particular including: murder ,destruction of infrastructure, agricultural production, biodiversity, industrial production, education, health, and others. Where occurred three wars; 1980, 1991 and 2003. Until now Iraq suffers from their impacts, where protection of sustainable development could be strategic necessity today's. Human who lives above the Earth is main reason in impact on the environment whether by the reason war or Irrationally use of natural resources which produce; pollution, smoke, waste, and epidemics .There is no doubt that the environment is a natural habitat for all human activities so events current on the earth surface, therefore unaffected and affect them, just the human living in healthy lives atmosphere where causes of varying degrees from effects on the environment. Our research is trying to find out how the in fact that environmental pollution by the reason of war hampering sustainable development and threatening the lives of Population, in order to reach this goal, included this   research ;sociological , environmental,ecnomic security for the people of Iraq.   caused unrest killed more than 85,000 civilians in 2007, estimated the number of refugees 4.7 million (about 16% of Iraq's population) in April 2008, and two million Iraqis have fled to neighboring countries, they are now according to the International Red Cross and the statements in the humanitarian situation bad, as the number of people killed during the war were 1.3 million people and in the month of August 2008 Iraq took fifth in unstable countries index.</em>


2021 ◽  
pp. 147-177
Author(s):  
Safwat H. Shakir Hanna ◽  
Gian Paolo Cesaretti

Agroecosystem energy is an essential part of the natural resources available to humans for use and the continuation of Earth's life cycle. Without energy, life on this Earth will stop, and the drivers of all ecological life cycles will not be able to continue function. Energy is an essential factor that makes the working process of human survivability possible. According to World Population Clock, the current status of human population growth is in an alarming situation (i.e., 7.81 billion people and continues to increase) [World Population Clock 2020 Accessed September 20, 2020][ World Population Clock, 2020). Therefore, the ecological human imprint will impact all Earth's natural resources, in the forms of more consumptions and demands that will have impacts on the global social and economic issues globally. Sustainability will be accomplished if we live within the concept of Nature, controlling our human population growth to reduce the impacts on natural resources' demands. In this respect, sustainability will not be achieved by economic growth alone; instead, the biosphere natural resources must replenish it and allow the natural resources to regenerate itself to support the growing human population. The present paper will assess the agroecosystem energy continuing ongoing demands and availability concerning human population growth by modeling different scenarios. According to our model, the human population growth will reach 10 billion people or more by the year 2050 at the current trend, and we may be faced with shortening the availability of energy. It is important to stress that the energy should be replenished through non-tradition energy supply, and we have to concentrate on renewable energy, which we can develop to the extent of harvesting this energy in efficient ways. An example of the needs of energy in the agroecosystem is to calculate how much enough the Earth has to support the human beings. In this regard, if each human being is in need of 2000 calories/per day on average, this means that globally the Earth has to produce more than 5694 trillion calories per year. The question is whether the Earth can create these calories to support 7.81 billion people, and we need more calories when the human population grows to be more than 7.81 bil lion people. Therefore, engineering of the Earth agroecosystem should be significant, and we have to think about how we accomplish it. Additionally, we need to sustain our environment by conserving our water resources and keeping our global climate environmentally in the best condition to maintain international economic and social standards. Further, in this paper, we will discuss the impacts of changing different parameters that affect global agroecosystem energy.


Author(s):  
Archana Parmar

The human body is made up of five elements - earth, water, air, fire and sky. All these elements are environmental drivers. Human beings also have many important natural assets in nature. Which humans have been using in their daily life such as rivers, mountains, plains, seas, trees, plants, vegetation etc. By exploiting natural resources on the earth, the reserves of natural resources are decreasing at a rapid rate, which is causing the imbalance in the environment. As a result, there is lack of water, holes found in the ozone layer, deforestation due to excessive deforestation, rising sea level, melting of glaciers, rising deserts etc., due to which water, air, grain, etc. Nature is falling victim to all the pollution. Along with the entire human being, animals, birds, wildlife and nature are also being affected.Due to excessive harvesting of forests, the weather of the earth is constantly changing. The temperature is increasing. "NASA's Gem Say analysis of the temperature from 1960 to 1987 has indicated an increase in the average temperature of the geosphere from 0.5 ° C to 0.7 ° C." (1) Scientists are repeatedly warning and We are witnessing the severe storms-tsunamis, hayans, uhors, katrina on the coming days. We are experiencing earthquakes on this day. मानव शरीर पंच तत्वों- प्रथ्वी, जल, वायु, अग्नि और आकाश से ही बना है। ये सभी तत्व पर्यावरण के धोतक है। प्रकृति मे मानव को अनेक महत्वपूर्ण प्राकृतिक सम्पदायें भी है। जिसका उपयोग मनुष्य अपने दैनिक जीवन में करता आया है जैसे- नदियाँ, पहाड़, मैदान, समुद्र, पेड़-पौधे, वनस्पति इत्यादि। प्रथ्वी पर प्राकृतिक संसाथनों का दोहन करने से प्राकृतिक संसाथनो के भण्डार तीव्र गति से घटते जा रहे है, जिससे पर्यावरण में असन्तुलन बढ़ रहा है। उसके परिणाम स्वरूप जल की कमी, ओजोन परत में छेद का पाया जाना, वनों की अत्यधिक कटाई से वनों की कमी आना, समुद्रों का जल स्तर बढना, ग्लेशियरों का पिघलना, रेगिस्तानों का बढना आदि हो रही है, जिससे जल, वायु, अन्न, प्रकृति सब प्रदूषण का शिकार हो रहे है। और समूची मानव आदि के साथ पशु-पक्षी, वन्य-प्रजाती व प्रकृति भी प्रभावित हो रहे है।वनो की अत्यधिक कटाई से प्रथ्वी के मौसम में निरन्तर बदलाव आ रहा है। तापमान में वृद्धि हो रही है। “नासा के जेम सई ने 1960 से 1987 तक के तापमान के विश्लेषण से भू-मंडल के औसत तापमान में 0.5 डिग्री सेल्सियस से 0.7 डिग्री सेल्सियस वृद्धि की बात कही है।“(1) वैज्ञानिको द्वारा बार-बार चेतावनी दी जा रही है एवं हम आये दिन भीषण समुद्री तूफानो-सुनामी, हायन, उहोर, कैटरीना को प्रत्यक्ष रूप से देख रहे है।आये दिन भूकंपो का सामना कर रहे है।


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