Awareness of Environmental Hazards of Standard IX Students of Nalgonda District in Telangana

Abstract

Environment includes all living and non-living things. To have healthy life, Affirmative environment is essential and awareness of one’s environment is inevitable. Environmental Education discusses awareness about the one’s surrounding environment, personal and social decision-making, teaching about value judgments, and its protection. An Environmental Education anticipates that every human being must know the pollution and its effects, management of Environment and protection, Environmental issues and polices; Environmental movements, sustainable development, International efforts on environment, etc. Environmental Hazard is the negative and disastrous effect caused due to some external factors and can result in great loss to human being. Environmental Hazards are extreme events that result from natural processes or human activities, which exceed the tolerable magnitude within or beyond certain time limits and make an adjustment with difficulties. The proposed study has adopted the survey method and purposive sampling technique has been employed to procure the required data from participants. The total sample of the study was 53 standard IX students of Nalgonda District of Telangana state