Environmental training upon environmental awareness

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Environmental training upon environmental
awareness

• Sinia Vukic, MSc student at Wageningen
  University, Department of Environmental Sciences,
  The Netherlands
• Supervisors Dick Legger and André van Amstel
  Wageningen University, Department of
  Environmental Sciences
• Collaboration with Delia Neagu, Neagu
  Consulting,
• The Netherlands

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Outline

• Introduction and aim
• Educational approach
• Examples (Romania and Poland)
• Conclusion

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Environmental situation in Eastern Europe

• Eastern Europe is lagging behind the standards
  imposed by European Union
• Environment policy endeavors promote sustainable
  development and protect the environment for
  present and future generations

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Environmental policy - engaging the public

• Action taken to curb and remove the negative
  environmental impacts caused by society
• Information disclosure, community pressure, and
  public participation are crucial in creating the
  political will to take effective action

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Why is the knowledge of environmental servants
important?

• Focus on the source of the environmental problem
• Failures of environmental policy in the process
  of implementation
• Participatory approach in process of policy
  making

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General causes of environmental stress based on
NEAP-Serbia

• Lack of capacity at local level and competences
  in implementing policy
• Forefront environmental authorities at local
  level suffer mostly with insufficient training
  and inadequate equipment

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Governance of environmental issues

• the participation and cooperation of local
  authorities will be determining factor in
  fulfilling its objectivesAs the level of
  governance closets to the people , they play
  vital role in educating, mobilizing and
  responding to the public to promote sustainable
  development
• Ref Agenda 21

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Governance of environmental issues

• Successful governance of environmental issues
  entails engagement with actors beyond central
  government

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Environmental education, communication and
training

• systematically organized learning process in
  attempt to influence peoples environmental
  thinking and behavior

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Emancipatory environmental education

• Enable participants to construct, transform,
  critique and emancipate their world in an
  existential way

• Enable participants to construct, transform,
  critique and emancipate their world in an
  existential way

• Construct- building upon the previous knowledge,
  experience and ideas of learners

• Critique- investigation of fundamental values,
  assumptions

• Transform- changing, shaping, influencing the
  world around

• Emancipate- detecting, exposing, and changing
  power deformation that obstruct communication

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Education set-up approach

• Learning by doing
• Diversity in learning style
• Active participation
• Value of valuing
• Balancing the far and near
• Case study approach
• Reflective actions

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Case of Poland

• Main instruments used are training of trainers,
  development and dissemination of communication
  and educational materials
• Work through so called ambassadors capable of
  training and advocating their newly acquired
  knowledge and skills

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Project targeting

• Prioritized are those programs, which can combine
  lectures with real activities
• Different groups
• Primary and secondary schools
• Regional network of environmental NGOs
• Municipal officers

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Case of Poland

• Transfer of knowledge

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Case of Romania

• Problem?
• Environmental activities not enough knowledge of
  how to design, develop, implement and disseminate
  environmental awareness campaigns
• Skills

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Objective of Romanian case

• Strengthening the institutional capacity of the
  authorities in order to be able to set in place
  education and information campaigns on
  environmental issues

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Conclusion

• Need for equipping forefront environmental
  authorities with appropriate environmental skills
  as a prerequisite for adequate implementation of
  environmental policy

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Acknowledgement

• D. Legger
• A. van Amstel
• D. Neagu
• H. Kok
• Thank you!

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