PROEKOLOŠKO PONAŠANJE KAO ISHOD EKOLOŠKE PISMENOSTI
PRO-ECOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR AS AN OUTCOME OF ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY

Summary/Abstract: Current environmental problems today can be attributed to growing population, economic development and industrialization, pollution, urbanization and depletion of resources on a global scale. Essentially, these ongoing problems are mainly related to people's lifestyles and intensive activities that take place in the natural environment (Barr & Gilg, 2006; Kolmuss & Agyman, 2002), which highlights the importance of balancing the relationship between people and the natural environment. As a consequence, in recent years, environmental issues have become one of the important concerns of society. Environmental literacy has been recognized as one of the most important aspects to consider for managing environmental problems since the 1970s. The importance and need of education in solving environmental problems and developing environmental literacy of future generations have been emphasized at every international conference, which are known as milestones in the environmental agenda.The paper presents the concept of environmental education, as well as the concept of environmental literacy as a product of environmental education. Environmental literacy is the goal of environmental education, and pro-environmental behaviour is the outcome of environmental literacy.This paper aims to point out the necessity of lifelong environmental education, the essence of environmental literacy, as well as the concept and goal of pro-environmental behaviour. In the national scientific literature, there are few resources covering the concept and importance of environmental literacy, and this work tries to fill that gap.

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