EED2601 ASSIGNMENT 3
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Assignment 3
Question 1
State 6 key characteristics of environmental education [6 marks]
It is a lifelong process and has both a holistic and a cross-disciplinary nature.
It is not a topic, but rather a method to education as a whole which deals with the
interrelationship and connection between human and natural systems.
It considers the environment as a whole to be a method of promoting involvement in the
learning experience and further emphasizing active responsibility including social, political,
economic, technical, moral, artistic and spiritual elements.
It employs a variety of teaching and learning approaches, which emphasize practical activity,
practical expertise and involve local, global and past/present/future aspects.
It promotes sensitivity, awareness, comprehension, critical thinking and problem solving,
It encourages values to be clarified and environmental sensitive values to be developed, it
encourages environmental ethics to be built.
(Based upon the Tbilisi Report Recommendation 2 UNESCO, 1977),
www.jgypk.hu. (n.d.). IX. 1. Definition, characteristics and goals of environmental education |
Learning It by Doing: Project-based Learning. [online] Available at:
http://www.jgypk.hu/mentorhalo/tananyag/Tevekenyen_az_iskolaban/ix_1_definition_character
istics_and_goals_of_environmental_education.html.
Question 2
Briefly explain the difference between weak and strong sustainability.
Depending on the type of capital accumulation, sustainability may be weak or robust. Defined as
weak sustainability by notions such as human capital and natural capital, human capital (or
generated capital) includes infrastructure, labor and knowledge. The weakness of sustainability is
marked by an unreducing combined capital stock and presupposes the substitution of man-made
capital with natural capital. Low sustainability enables natural resource depletion or deterioration as
long as the rise in stocks of other types of capital is offset by this reduction (for example, by investing
royalties from depleting mineral reserves in factories).
Strong sustainability is a sustainability concept that argues that existing natural resources cannot be
reproduced or replaced. In order to continue reaping the advantages of natural capital, this should
be safeguarded, maintained and strengthened.
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Assignment 3
Question 1
State 6 key characteristics of environmental education [6 marks]
It is a lifelong process and has both a holistic and a cross-disciplinary nature.
It is not a topic, but rather a method to education as a whole which deals with the
interrelationship and connection between human and natural systems.
It considers the environment as a whole to be a method of promoting involvement in the
learning experience and further emphasizing active responsibility including social, political,
economic, technical, moral, artistic and spiritual elements.
It employs a variety of teaching and learning approaches, which emphasize practical activity,
practical expertise and involve local, global and past/present/future aspects.
It promotes sensitivity, awareness, comprehension, critical thinking and problem solving,
It encourages values to be clarified and environmental sensitive values to be developed, it
encourages environmental ethics to be built.
(Based upon the Tbilisi Report Recommendation 2 UNESCO, 1977),
www.jgypk.hu. (n.d.). IX. 1. Definition, characteristics and goals of environmental education |
Learning It by Doing: Project-based Learning. [online] Available at:
http://www.jgypk.hu/mentorhalo/tananyag/Tevekenyen_az_iskolaban/ix_1_definition_character
istics_and_goals_of_environmental_education.html.
Question 2
Briefly explain the difference between weak and strong sustainability.
Depending on the type of capital accumulation, sustainability may be weak or robust. Defined as
weak sustainability by notions such as human capital and natural capital, human capital (or
generated capital) includes infrastructure, labor and knowledge. The weakness of sustainability is
marked by an unreducing combined capital stock and presupposes the substitution of man-made
capital with natural capital. Low sustainability enables natural resource depletion or deterioration as
long as the rise in stocks of other types of capital is offset by this reduction (for example, by investing
royalties from depleting mineral reserves in factories).
Strong sustainability is a sustainability concept that argues that existing natural resources cannot be
reproduced or replaced. In order to continue reaping the advantages of natural capital, this should
be safeguarded, maintained and strengthened.
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