Resource Keyword: environment

Environmental Awareness Among School Students: A Case Study of Nanded City, Maharashtra

Environmental education creates an overall perspective, which acknowledges the fact that natural environment and man-made environments are interdependent. Environmental education should consider the environment in its totality and should be a continuous lifelong process beginning at the school level and continuing through all stages because the best way to attempt to bring about a change in the attitude in society is through children.

A Methodological Proposal for Environmental Education

This paper discusses methodological criteria for environmental education. The place of environmental education in the curriculum has led to its being considered as a dimension that should cut across different disciplines, instead of offering a corpus of contents by itself. Nevertheless, experience has shown that ecology has systematically filled up the contents of environmental education.

Built Environment, Urban Vitality and Social Cohesion: Do Vibrant Neighborhoods Foster Strong Communities?​

Urban vitality and social cohesion both provide multiple benefits in cities. While it has been argued that urban vitality – the liveliness of cities – may strengthen social cohesion, this has not been sufficiently examined by empirical research. This paper presents and tests a model in which urban vitality mediates the relationship between built environment characteristics and neighbourhood social cohesion, using survey and geospatial data from the Oslo metropolitan area​.