Investigation of the role of environmental standards in achievement to sustainable development, according to the levels of awareness of students

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 MSc Student of Natural Resources-Environmental engineeiring , yazd University

2 Assistant Prof . of faculty of Natural Resourse . Yazd University

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One of the goals specified in the document of natural resources and watershed development in 1404 is promotion of awareness of environmental and natural resources, so one of the strategies to achieve this approach is environmental education and culture in higher education so that sustainable development can be achieved. in this regard, in this study was investigated the levels of in natural resources - environment engineering M.Sc. students about environmental standard series specially 14000 in Environmental Management System and also the importance of this standards series in observation of students in sustainable development. about this, 5 universities were selected from 12 universities offering this course in M.Sc. 104 questionnaires given out between students and collected after fulfillment. Assessable data analyzed using the SPSS program. Statistical results of this research indicate that the mean of awareness of students about concepts of standards is between low and median and about importance of application and total aims of ISO 14000 is between median and high. In relation to awareness in different section doesn’t indicate significant difference between two sexes. The result of this study doesn’t indicate significant difference in level of awareness in different universities’ students from this standards series. It is worth mentioning that according to the awareness of student, it was proved that ISO 14000 standards series could lead the management of organization to sustainable development.

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