ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION STRATEGIES IN CURBING GLOBAL CHANGES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

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Abstract This paper is an exploration of Environmental education strategies in curbing Global changes for sustainable development. Global changes refer to various global situations interpreted in global challenges which range from social, economic, cultural, political to environmental spheres such as climate change, pollution, peace and conflict, science and technology, energy, clean water, status of women and so on. However, this paper focuses on global changes from an environmental perspective. Education is a fulcrum on which the social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainable development stand as it can enhance employment prospects, improve health, conserve and stabilize the ecosystem and help grow active citizens. Sustainability in all ramifications is becoming a real challenge globally especially in the area of Environmental Education in connection with tackling global changes. Communities need a lot of information and innovation in order to develop new knowledge, new technologies, new methods and approaches, new lifestyles and new projects to cope with global changes. This paper however, observed that, environmental education is facing a lot of hurdles which have impeded its capacity to effectively tackle the challenges of global changes such as: Lack of public funding and privatization and commercialization of education and marginalization of adult non formal education. Therefore, the paper recommended that: apart from sustained and proper funding of environmental education, there should be intensified and sustained advocacy, sensitization and mobilization of all stake holders to support environmental and Non-Formal Education in this country which has the role of raising in citizens the consciousness of the impact of imbibing deliberate positive lifestyles and behaviour which can be used for conservation of energy which in turn affects climate, poverty level and development generally.

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