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Impact of Environmental Awareness Module among Under Graduate Students

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  • Suman K Murthy
  • Laxmi Putran
  • Nireekshan Singh Gowgi S K
  • Nuthana D Balekoppa

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Conservation of environment and bio diversity is the need of the hour to protect our habitat. The current study was undertaken to engage the undergraduate students, in a participative workshop on environment Awareness- Bio Diversity module, to bring about positive perception on environment conservation. A module on Environmental Awareness was prepared. Environment Awareness- Bio Diversity module of ten hours duration, spread across two days of activity and field visit based programmes in five areas- Bio diversity, Pollution, Water conservation, Food/ fuel requirement and conservation. The module was administered to two groups of undergraduate students. Pre and post module exposure awareness was tested through a self prepared questionnaire. The results reveal that the exposure to environmental awareness module had positive impact on the respondents.

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  • Suman K Murthy & Laxmi Putran & Nireekshan Singh Gowgi S K & Nuthana D Balekoppa, 2014. "Impact of Environmental Awareness Module among Under Graduate Students," Journal of Global Economy, Research Centre for Social Sciences,Mumbai, India, vol. 10(2), pages 94-109, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:jge:journl:1022
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    Keywords

    Environment awareness module; Graduate students; conservation; Social Work;
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    • Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics

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