Quo vadis global environmental sustainability? A proposal for the environmental education of engineering students
by Bhaskar Nath, Krassimira Kazashka-Hristozova
International Journal of Environment and Pollution (IJEP), Vol. 23, No. 1, 2005

Abstract: In this paper, the inextricable link between sustainable development and sustainability of the natural environment is pointed out and a heuristic for developing a unique operational definition of sustainable development is proposed. It is argued that if the international community is at all serious about achieving even a modest degree of global environmental sustainability and global sustainable development, determined efforts must be made to reduce consumption by the affluent; that science and technology, however advanced, can only help the process of global sustainable development in a limited way but cannot deliver it; and that moral and ethical education is needed to achieve global environmental sustainability by changing people's attitude to nature and the environment – from one of gross exploitation as at present to that of genuine concern and respect. To this end, a generic outline syllabus, including essential elements of moral philosophy, is proposed for the environmental education of undergraduate engineering students.

Online publication date: Thu, 03-Mar-2005

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