Evaluating Trend of Environmental Education in The five-year Development Plans and Strategies for Implementing Environmental Education

The study aimed to evaluate the trend of Environmental Education in national Development Plans. Today, environment is threatened by the watershed catchments degradation, loss of biodiversity, types of pollution and extreme climatic changes. Since many of these changes are resulted from human activities and a lack of understanding of the environment, the development of culture and environmental education are considered to be the major initiatives in solving these problems. International Changes of the environment on one hand and the development of environmentally destructive processes in the country, as in many developing countries have led that issue of environmental protection than the focus of policy makers and decision makers in the country. In this paper we review the development plans of the country then we study status of environmental education and training and practice in the five-year plans, important goals of environmental education and activities required to achieve these goals is proposed.