Abstract:
Environmental awareness is an understanding of natural system combined with how interact with
human social system. It implies not only knowledge about environment but also attitude, values
and necessary skills to solve environment related problems. In developing countries approx. 80%
of all diseases resulted from a combination of poor hygiene, contaminated water and poor
sanitation. The present study was done for developing a clear understanding and perspective of
the issues involved with the environment. The method used for the study was descriptive survey
method. Data was collected by using environmental awareness scale and sample was selected
randomly from the Digboi Town. The collected data was analysed by statistical package for
social studies (SPSS), version 24 of IBM. On careful observation of the results, it was found that
the adolescent people of Digboi are more aware about the environment than that of the adult
people. |
