مجله آموزش محیط زیست و توسعه پایدار
سال یکم شماره 1 (پاییز 1391)

In the Islamic faith, whatever action which ruins the nature is forbidden, since God many times in Quran warns about promoting corruption on the earth. That is why, Islamic government has control over human being's action in relation to the nature. In addition to punishing those who damage the environment, it warns the ones who are not aware of the effects of their malpractice on the nature. The religion of Islam considers no border lines between human beings and the nature and believes they are in supplementary relations. So it offers the most complete recommendations about nature conservancy and portrays the full aspects of human beings in a harmonious relation with divine will in Quran. So using the value bases of Islamic economic regulations in society can provide conditions for conserving nature and natural resources by reducing negative external natural effects and fulfillment of stable expansion and vindications of human being's rights. In this study, some verses on natural resources, their conservation and usages have been extracted from Quran, then they are analyzed and categorized in different topics regarding their interpretations.

This research is allocated to examine the extent of environmental knowledge, attitude and performance of students in order to measure their needs for environmental education. This study is done by survey method through questionnaire, and the environmental knowledge, attitude and performance of 150 students of Isfahan elementary schools, chosen by multi-step cluster sampling, is measured. The findings indicate that students have a relatively good knowledge about the necessity of plant types existence, dangers of sound pollution, and dangers of getting rid of trash in a wrong way, but they don’t have enough information about lack of necessary resources in life varieties and the effects of trees in reduction of sound pollution. 80 percent of students don’t know the sign of recycling and don’t have a good knowledge about recyclable substances. They even have no knowledge about ozone-friendly sign on products and the necessity of paying attention to it. Yet, they have a positive attitude about their own part and other people's part in reduction of environmental pollution. Theyre worried about their own health because of environmental reasons, but still don’t believe that human use the environment wrongly.

The purpose of this study is to provide an opportunity for the discovery of the methods for teaching environment from the elementary student's points of view. Based on the assumption of this research, the student is an individual who is capable of facing the socio-academic issue of environment and, intellectually, analyze the common issues and determine his/her position. The simple random sampling method of this research has been 150 elementary students from 11 and 18 districts of the board of education in Tehran. In the research method the Delphi technique is used and based on it, the students were, accordingly, asked to prepare a list of methods that has been used for teaching environment. Then a preliminary list that has been extracted out from the collection of all the lists was given to students so that they could reflect changes and improvements they deemed to be necessary. Ultimately, the new list was prepared based on the presented views and changes made and again it was put up for polling by students. Finally, the findings of the research based on the methods of teaching environment from the student's points of view have been computed and presented.

The problem of electronic waste in recent years has attracted much attention. Such waste contains a variety of materials such as precious metals and dangerous toxins that are harmful to humans and the environment. In addition, in developed countries, in parallel with providing facilities, the emphasis has been put on the role of environmental education and knowledge, but in most developing countries, like Iran, the problem of electronic waste has not yet been considered. The present study seeks to examine the role of environmental education in electronic waste management, and to offer some solutions to achieve this goal. Statistical society of this study includes students of Mazandaran University, and interview technique is used for data collection. The study determined that the government and municipalities programs for collection, separation and recycling of such waste, can have an effective role in reducing waste and appropriate behavior to be with them.

Knowledge and awareness are basic factors in changing attitude and behavior to interact friendly with environment. Therefore, the improvement of environment, calls for public awareness about the role of environment in human beings’ life. In this regard, to promote environmental friendly and responsible behavior by businessmen, this study conducted to assess the level of knowledge of businessmen at region 12 in Tehran. Respondents were 384 tradespeople that fulfill a questionnaire as research tool. Results revealed that tradespeople recognize only the usual areas around themselves as environment and put aside the other environmental components such as industrial and manufactured products, other humans and organisms. They also did not know anything about participatory waste management. They maintain that the traffic jam, and noise pollution are the most environmental problems at bazaar area and the best way to promote environmental knowledge are public media like TV, Radio, press and so on.

The research has been done for revising the deterred and motivating factors of public education and participation, in various tasks of Tehran Municipality. The method of research was functional in the view of collecting descriptive information and the goal. The sample categories coincident with sampling procedure were data collection based on a questionnaire consisting of 40 items with Lucent 5 scale size. The queries investigated the simulation, content, structures and permanence of performing an experiment on 3 categories of samples together with calculating Cronbach's alpha rate (82 percent). The collected data’s have been analyzed with SPSS software by descriptive and inferential statistics manners like come test, factor analysis, “t” test for 2 independent groups, variance analyzing and “Tuki” post hoc test. The results of data processing show that social, economic, cultural, technologic, motivating, managing and educational are so important in motivating and deterrent of education in increasing of civic participation in Tehran municipality activities.

Following the Earth Conference in 1992 and the preparation of Agenda 21 and Its 36th chapter which is about environmental education and training for sustainable development, and regarding four main themes of this chapter, all implying the stability of training, and also, because we are in the decade of education for sustainable development now, all countries have tried to design and suggest ways for the stability of education. Therefore, in this conference all countries unanimously agreed upon “training of sustainable development in schools as a whole”. This approach put emphasis on implementation of what has been learned to reduce the gap between values in action through integrating formal and informal training programs. In “schools as a whole” approach which is sustainable school in essence, it is necessary to consider a framework for sustainable school with emphasis on its dimensions and indexes. In this article, all of these items have been described completely, and in the end, it has been concluded that training for sustainable development in schools is in it’s initial phase and the managers have come to understood it’s necessary, but there is no clear framework for its implementation.