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c. Importance of environment education
We can summarize the importance of environment education under the following points:

i. It gives knowledge about components of environment.
ii. It shows the relationship of humans with the environmental resources.
iii. It provides knowledge on 3R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) principle.

iv. It awares people about the effects of human activities on environment.
v. It provides scientific knowledge for the conservation and management of resources
in environment.
vi. It gives ideas about various environmental issues like pollution, global warming,
climate change, greenhouse effect, acid rainfall, desertification, etc.

vii. It helps in the establishment of national parks, wildlife reserves, conservation areas
etc.

viii. It encourages people to participate actively for the conservation of resources in
environment.
ix. It provides knowledge on negative attitude of people regarding the use of resources.

x. It supports in bringing change in attitudes and behaviours of people towards
sustainable use of resources.

1.5 Scope of Health, Population and Environment Education

Scope refers to the extent of the area or subject matter that something deals with or to
which it is relevant. When we say about the scope of subject, it is the field or area where
we implement the knowledge on particular subject matter. Health, population and
environment education are three different subjects. But, they are inter-related with one
another. Each of the subjects has different importance and scope as well. Each of them
influences the other.

A. Scope of health education

The area or place from where we gain knowledge about health and health related matters
is known as scope of health education.

We can study scope of health education under two headings as:
a. Social settings b. Relationship with other subjects

a. Social settings
People live in society. Society comprises of community, family, home, school, etc. We can
study scope of health education as home, school and community under social settings.

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