II. The Conference endorses the following goals, objectives, and guiding principles for environmental education:
The goals of environmental education are:
to foster clear awareness of, and concern about, economic, social, political, and ecological interdependence in urban and rural areas;
to provide every person with opportunities to acquire the knowledge, values, attitudes, commitment, and skills needed to protect and improve the environment;
to create new patterns of behavior of individuals, groups, and society as a whole towards the environment.
The categories of environmental education objectives are:
Awareness—to help social groups and individuals acquire an awareness and sensitivity to the total environment and its allied problems.
Knowledge—to help social groups and individuals gain a variety of experience in, and acquire a basic understanding of, the environment and its associated problems.
Attitudes—to help social groups and individuals acquire a set of values and feelings of concern for the environment and the motivation for actively participating in environmental improvement and protection.
Skills—to help social groups and individuals acquire the skills for identifying and solving environmental problems.
Participation—to provide social groups and individuals with an opportunity to be actively involved at all levels in working toward resolution of environmental problems.
