The document defines several key concepts related to environmental education and sustainability. It defines holistic education as connecting people to their community, nature, and humanitarian values. Environmental education aims to teach about natural environments and sustainable management. It is defined as increasing knowledge about environmental challenges, developing skills to address them, and fostering sustainable decision-making. Sustainable development meets current needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs.

2. CONCEPTS

3. HOLISTIC ENVIRONMENT
Holistic education is a philosophy of education
based on the premise that each person finds
identity, meaning, and purpose in life through
connections to the community, to the natural
world, and to humanitarian values such as
compassion and peace. Holistic education aims
to call forth from people an intrinsic reverence
for life and a passionate love of learning.

4. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Refers to organized efforts to teach about how natural
environments function and, particularly, how human
beings can manage their behavior and ecosystems in
order to live sustainably. The term is often used to
imply education within the school system, from
primary to post-secondary. However, it is sometimes
used more broadly to include all efforts to educate
the public and other audiences, including print
materials, websites, media campaigns, etc. Related
disciplines include outdoor education and
experiential education.

5. “ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IS A LEARNING
PROCESS THAT:
• Increases peoples’ knowledge and awareness
about the environment and associated
challenges;
• Develops the necessary skills and expertise to
address these challenges, including critical
thinking skills; and
• Fosters attitudes, motivation, and commitment
to make informed decisions and take
responsible action”
• From ‘Framework to Advance Environmental
Education in Alberta’

6. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IS A LEARNING
PROCESS THAT INCREASES PEOPLE'S
KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS ABOUT THE
ENVIRONMENT AND ASSOCIATED CHALLENGES,
DEVELOPS THE NECESSARY SKILLS AND
EXPERTISE TO ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES, AND
FOSTERS ATTITUDES, MOTIVATIONS, AND
COMMITMENTS TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS
AND TAKE RESPONSIBLE ACTION (UNESCO,
TBILISI DECLARATION, 1978).

7. FOCUS
• Environmental education focuses on:
• Awareness and sensitivity about the
environment and environmental challenges
• Knowledge and understanding about the
environment and environmental challenges
• Attitude concern for the environment and help
to maintain environmental quality
• Skills to mitigate the environmental problems
• Participation for exercising existing knowledge
and environmental related programs.

8. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
In 1987, the United Nations released the Brundtland
Report, which included what is now one of the most
widely recognised definitions: "Sustainable
development is development that meets the needs of
the present without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs.
According to the same report, the above definition
contains within it two key concepts:
the concept of 'needs', in particular the essential needs of
the world's poor, to which overriding priority should be
given; and the idea of limitations imposed by the state
of technology and social organization on the
environment's ability to meet present and future needs

9. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
The most commonly used definition
of Sustainable Development is:
‘Development that meets the needs
of the present without
compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own
needs’.

10. ECOSYSTEM
A community of organisms together with their
physical environment, viewed as a system of
interacting and interdependent relationships and
including such processes as the flow of energy
through trophic levels and the cycling of chemical
elements and compounds through living and
nonliving components of the system.

11. BIODIVERSITY
The definition of biodiversity
refers to the amount of diversity
between different plants,
animals and other species in a
given habitat at a particular time.

12. OVERPOPULATION
Excessive population of an area to the
point of overcrowding, depletion of
natural resources, or environmental
deterioration.

13. URBANISATION
Urbanisation is the increase in the proportion of people
living in towns and cities.
• the transformation of land once suitable for agriculture
into desert. Desertification can result from climate
change or from human practices such as deforestation
and overgrazing.

14. DEFORESTATION
The cutting down and removal of all or
most of the trees in a forested area.
Deforestation can erode soils, contribute
to desertification and the pollution of
waterways, and decrease biodiversity
through the destruction of habitat.

15. POLLUTION
• The act or process of polluting or the state of
being polluted, especially the contamination of
soil, water, or the atmosphere by the discharge
of harmful substances
• The contamination of air, water, or soil by
substances that are harmful to living
organisms. Pollution can occur naturally, for
example through volcanic eruptions, or as the
result of human activities, such as the spilling
of oil or disposal of industrial waste

16. ECOLOGY
1.
a. The science of the relationships between organisms and
their environments. Also called bionomics.
b. The relationship between organisms and their
environment.
2. The branch of sociology that is concerned with studying
the relationships between human groups and their
physical and social environments. Also called human
ecology.
3. The study of the detrimental effects of modern civilization
on the environment, with a view toward prevention or
reversal through conservation. Also called human
ecology.

17. HEALTH HAZARD
Environmental health comprises those aspects of
human health, including quality of life, that are
determined by physical, chemical, biological, social
and psychosocial factors in the environment. It also
refers to the theory and practice of assessing,
correcting, controlling and preventing those factors
in the environment that can potentially affect
adversely the health of present and future
generations.

18. HEALTH HAZARD
a danger to health resulting from exposure to
environmental pollutants, such as asbestos or
ionizing radiation, or to a life-style choice, such as
cigarette smoking or chemical abuse.

19. ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
'Environmental hazard' is the state of events which has the potential to
threaten the surrounding natural environment and adversely affect
people's health. This term incorporates topics like pollution and natural
disasters such as storms and earthquake
• Those aspects of the human health and disease that are determined by
factors in the environment. It also refers to the theory and practice of
assessing and controlling factors in the environment that can
potentially affect health.