Increasing Environmental Awareness

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Description

Environmental Awareness or environmentalism is a concern for the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the natural environment, such as the conservation of natural resources, prevention of pollution, and certain land use actions. It often supports the struggles of indigenous peoples against the spread of globalisation to their way of life, which is seen as less harmful to the environment.

A increase in environmental awareness will lead to a better and more efficient environmental management which is not, as the phrase suggests, the management of the environment as such but rather the management of the humankind's interaction with and impact upon the environment.

Enablers

• greening
• environmental management
• resource efficiency and waste minimization
• environmental responsibility
• ethics and justice

Inhibitors

• Convenience
• Lack of personal responsibility
• Lack of environmental awareness

Timing

Environmental activism dates back nearly 400 years. The first such recorded instance is that of the Bishnois of Rajasthan, India when a number of Bishnois embraced death to defy the cutting trees in their villages, by the king's men of that region.

Modern environmentalism has its roots in the Mid to Late 19th Century United States with individuals such as John Muir and Henry David Thoreau, but it was not until the 1960s that concern for the environment by a few individuals turned into a movement and the formation of environmentalism as an ideology started to happen.

Web Resources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_management

Bhattacharya, 2004