3. PUBLIC AWARENESS
PURPOSE AND SCOPE
EXPOSE YOU TO THE WHAT, WHY AND HOW OF PUBLIC AWARENESS ,
EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
LEARN SKILLS OF THE TRADE OF HOW TO INFORM, EDUCATE,
COMMUNICATE WITH AND ENGENDER SUPPORT AND ACTION OF THE
PUBLIC
LEARN FROM EACH OTHER’S EXPERIENCE… GOOD AND BAD
DEGREES IN ADULT EDUCATION, COMMUNICATION, PUBLIC
RELATIONS, ETC. TAKE 2-3 YEARS
5. OPINION ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL
DEGRADATION
Types of respondents Number of
respondents
yes no
professional 10 10 -
women 10 10 -
Rural people/peasent 10 10 -
Local leader/elite 10 10 -
others 10 10 -
total 50 50 -
6. PUBLIC AWARENESS
IN ANSWERING THE QUESTION WHAT ARE THE REASONS OF
ENVIRONMENTAL
DEGRADATION? 34% MENTIONED AIR POLLUTION, 30% REVEALED
WATER
POLLUTION, AND 14% VIEWED SOUND POLLUTION. DEFORESTATION
WAS
EXPRESSED BY 12%. LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY (8%) AND DEPLETION OF
OZONE
LAYER (2%) WERE ALSO STRESSED.
7. SUSTAINABILITY
The environment is changing the way we live on our planet now affects .
What it will be like in the future oil and natural gas could be in short
supply in about 50 years time
The earth is believed to be getting warmer and sea levels appear to be
rising more research is required to assess
This rate of climate change we need to live more sustainable lives
9. Natural environment
the natural environment commonly refer
to simply as the environment
Encompasses all living and non-living
things occurring naturally on earth or
some region there of
10. Interaction among the physical chemical and
biological components of the environment
The surrounding conditions that affect man and other
organisms
Natural and human resources are inter dependent and
the use or missuse of one affects the other
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19. OUR PRESENT SCENARIO
• Our plane is in trouble ! Almost every day we seem to hear of yet another
problem affecting the environment and what a list of problems!
• Pollution, acid rain , global warming , the destruction of rain .
• Forest and other wild habitats, the decline and extinction of thousands of
species of animals and plants …………and so on
