Planning and Management of Lakes and Reservoirs: An Integrated Approach to Eutrophication


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CHAPTER 4. PUBLIC AWARENESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

4.4. Environmental Education

4.4.6. Evaluating the Progress of Public Environmental Education

There are two important reasons for attempting to evaluate the success or failure of public education programmes. These are:

to provide a basis by which improvements in the key areas of knowledge, attitudes, and practices can be measured, and
to use this information to improve the quality of education subsequently provided.

The process of evaluation should be a continuous process carried out by the community, educators, and organizations involved in public education activities. The evaluation should also seek to measure the extent to which the supporting tools, such as the use of small amounts of laundry detergent, subsidies on environmental-friendly agricultural chemicals or stricter regulations and penalties for the dumping of wastes into rivers, lakes and reservoirs, have been created. Further, the performance of the community based user groups and the progress made in establishing a sound legal basis by which the community is able to assume full responsibility for the management of its water resources in the years ahead, should also be evaluated.

The progress of the education process can be carried out by surveys conducted in order to determine the level of public environmental awareness. Background information on methods of surveys is discussed in Section 4.2.1.

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