Environmental education as a tool of sustainable development of territories

Abstract

The paper deals with the environmental element of the concept of sustainable development. The purpose of the paper is to explore the issue of municipal solid waste management in the Russian Federation and in Sverdlovskaya Oblast. More specifically, it examines the context for successful implementation of the National Ecology Project and the garbage reform against a background of public pressure. There is a need for an integrated approach to broaden the public ‘green’ outlook by engaging educational institutions, business organizations, and mass media. To maintain an ecological balance is in itself a way to ensure sustainable development of territories. The authors believe that environmental education may significantly contribute to raising awareness among consumers and producers for the purpose of sustainable development, and serve as a possible measure of preventing public discontent.

Marketing aspects of sustainable urban development in small towns of the Republic of Tatarstan

“…Maintaining ecological balance is in itself a way to ensure sustainable development of territories. Environmental education can significantly contribute to raising awareness of consumers and producers for sustainable development, as well as serve as a possible measure to prevent public discontent, which, as a result, makes it possible to implement sustainable development of territories (Vidrevich, Pakhalchak, Pervukhina, 2020).…”