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This study seeks to study the level of awareness, sensitivity, attitude and concern of teachers of various schools towards environment, who are pursuing B.Ed form IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) and enrolled at Regional Centre Patna over the previous two years (2012 and 2013). // Ensuring environmental sustainability is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals established by the UN at the Millennium Summit where all the member states agreed to achieve these goals by the year 2015. Among other targets set to achieve the goal, one is, to integrate the principles of sustainable development in the policies and programmes of the country and reverse the loss to environmental resources. India is one among these member states. // In the Indian Constitution, Article 51 A (g) on Fundamental Duties , assigns a similar responsibility on individuals of the country to protect and improve the natural environment, including the forests, lakes, rivers and wildlife. // However, in a country of more than a billion people and great geographic, socio – cultural diversities, enforcing something through education will probably have a more far reaching effect over enforcing something by legislation and teachers must possess the skills to teach, propagate and train the young minds in schools to be more aware about their environment and be sensitive towards its degradation and also, be careful for its preservation. // Teachers can play a very dynamic role in transmitting knowledge, skills , attitude and concern to revert or at least control the damage that has been caused to the environment. // A comparative analysis is proposed to assess the level of awareness, sensitivity, attitude and concern of teacher students towards environment vis a vis the following; male and female teachers, rural and urban teachers, government and private school teachers etc. Statistical measures of mean, standard deviation and correlation shall be used to find out conclusions. // Paper ID: 186

Awareness of a small business neighborhood was studied by driving 40 college students through a 1.7-mile route. Twenty other students received no ride. Half of each group had a high frequency of previous exposure to the area (mean number of times in the area = 159.9) and the other half had low frequency (mean = 5.3). The ride significantly increased the number of items mentioned in a free recall task and the number of pictures positively identified in a recognition task. Previous exposure to the area affected only recognition. The kinds of things recalled and recognized are discussed in terms of a utilitarian versus aesthetic orientation to the environment.

Objective: We present a snapshot of the work on situation awareness, which involves operators' comprehension of the dynamic situation that they are monitoring or controlling. Background: Although human factors has always been concerned with helping the operator in his or her work environment, research exploded in the mid-1990s on one relevant construct, situation awareness. Method: We discuss how a distinction present years ago, the product of comprehension versus the process of comprehension, not only continues today but characterizes different research directions. Research on situation awareness has benefited and can continue to benefit from an analogy to the better understood comprehension of narrative and expository text, although such an analogy between text and dynamic environments will ultimately have limits. Results: Situation awareness as a notion that organizes and focuses research efforts has rightfully spread to research in virtually every industrial domain, and it is an essential part of work on automation and design. Conclusion: Work on situation awareness has had a ubiquitous influence on cognitive engineering and has even pushed the envelope of basic cognitive psychology into dynamic domains. Application: Considering situation awareness is also important in cognitive ergonomic issues relevant to training, teamwork, and the design of new human-technical systems.

The article deals with providing situational awareness in operations at the operational level of command in the context of the information environment, the current nature of which significantly affects the execution of this capability. It examines the influence of three selected aspects - information overload, the expansion of advanced information technology and the growing importance of the cyber domain - on generating, maintaining and sharing situational awareness in planning and conduct of operations. It identifies and characterizes the respective sub-capabilities within the information area, necessary for operational headquarters to effectively provide situational awareness, and outline possible ways to develop these capabilities in terms of internal processes, technical equipment and personnel.

Studies that examine whether voters make informed decisions on direct legislation and whether direct legislation enhances civic engagement presume a basic awareness of ballot propositions, yet little is known about why some ballot propositions are more widely known than others. Despite the fact that research on awareness of ballot propositions and political awareness focus on individual factors, the political environment plays a vital role. This study seeks to advance our understanding of environmental factors in explaining awareness of ballot propositions. Using data on California ballot elections between the years 1956 and 2000, I find that the political environment has a substantial effect on voter awareness. Specifically, I find that the electoral cycle, media coverage, campaign spending, voter fatigue, the number of days before an election, and issues that concern morality, civil liberties, and civil rights contribute to ballot proposition awareness.

In the past few years, excessive efforts have been made to increase the city's attractiveness and its international positioning. Also studies on the so-called city destination branding are on the rise. Theorists, as Ramirez (2001), Marzano and Scott (2009), among many others, are discussing different aspects of this complex process. Many approaches and strategies are dealing with the positioning of urban environments and city destinations, trying to provide at least some partial answers about achieving this objective. With proper marketing and branding, cities can do a lot to attract tourists and visitors. For successful city marketing and branding and for the successful long-term positioning of the destination in general, it is necessary to involve the key stakeholders and collaborate with as many as possible despite the fact that the branding of a city destination (or any destination for that matter) is a complex process. It is significant that all the stakeholders, who are always carriers of different interests, are invited to collaborate in the planning of the tourism development and tourism development strategies, from the government, the private sector, schools etc. It is also important to involve the citizens, who can provide a valuable opinion about the environment they live in – what they like about their environment, what suggestion would they give to tourists about gastronomy, attractions, shops, events, etc. It is significant that citizens are proud of their urban environment, that they know their own environment, and that they have the motivation for the involvement in the process of improvement of their home environment (through projects, discussions, etc.). It is impossible to create attractive urban environments or cities if residents do not have a positive opinion about the place they live in. That is why it is essential for the education institutions at all levels, but especially for the institutions at the primary levels to educate children, toddlers, pupils, students, about the importance of urban environment development and create a positive learning environment, where children are able to develop as residents with a great understanding of the potential of the environment they live in. The paper explores the importance of raising awareness of the urban environment in primary schools from the theoretical, analytical and practical point of views. In the paper, we will examine whether primary schools in the city of Maribor, Slovenia educate children about their urban environment, if they are creating positive learning environments, where children can develop into proud citizens aware of the significance of the urban environment and its consequences for the quality of their lives. Further on, the curricula in chosen primary schools in Maribor is going to be analyzed. With the survey, we will try to identify the degree of children's awareness of their surrounding urban environment, the information they receive about their environment, and their attitude towards it. And finally, what is most important, we will try to show the extreme significance of the learning environment and the curricula for raising the awareness of the environment and growing into responsible adults who will also act responsibly towards their urban environments.

In the past few years, excessive efforts have been made to increase the city's attractiveness and its international positioning. Also studies on the so-called city destination branding are on the rise. Theorists, as Ramirez (2001), Marzano and Scott (2009), among many others, are discussing different aspects of this complex process. Many approaches and strategies are dealing with the positioning of urban environments and city destinations, trying to provide at least some partial answers about achieving this objective. With proper marketing and branding, cities can do a lot to attract tourists and visitors. For successful city marketing and branding and for the successful long-term positioning of the destination in general, it is necessary to involve the key stakeholders and collaborate with as many as possible despite the fact that the branding of a city destination (or any destination for that matter) is a complex process. It is significant that all the stakeholders, who are always carriers of different interests, are invited to collaborate in the planning of the tourism development and tourism development strategies, from the government, the private sector, schools etc. It is also important to involve the citizens, who can provide a valuable opinion about the environment they live in – what they like about their environment, what suggestion would they give to tourists about gastronomy, attractions, shops, events, etc. It is significant that citizens are proud of their urban environment, that they know their own environment, and that they have the motivation for the involvement in the process of improvement of their home environment (through projects, discussions, etc.). It is impossible to create attractive urban environments or cities if residents do not have a positive opinion about the place they live in. That is why it is essential for the education institutions at all levels, but especially for the institutions at the primary levels to educate children, toddlers, pupils, students, about the importance of urban environment development and create a positive learning environment, where children are able to develop as residents with a great understanding of the potential of the environment they live in. The paper explores the importance of raising awareness of the urban environment in primary schools from the theoretical, analytical and practical point of views. In the paper, we will examine whether primary schools in the city of Maribor, Slovenia educate children about their urban environment, if they are creating positive learning environments, where children can develop into proud citizens aware of the significance of the urban environment and its consequences for the quality of their lives. Further on, the curricula in chosen primary schools in Maribor is going to be analyzed. With the survey, we will try to identify the degree of children's awareness of their surrounding urban environment, the information they receive about their environment, and their attitude towards it. And finally, what is most important, we will try to show the extreme significance of the learning environment and the curricula for raising the awareness of the environment and growing into responsible adults who will also act responsibly towards their urban environments.

The very aim of this paper is to pull together the statistics and empirical evidence to highlight the current state of environmental awareness issue in Malaysia. Based on the issue heightened, the problem statement is then crystallized. Empirical and theoretical supports were intertwined to explain and justify as to how the potential variables suggested may contribute to the parsimony of the suggested research framework, particularly in the setting of Malaysia. The variables of interest include a dependent variable, environmental awareness; an independent variable, perceived media coverage; two moderators, namely perceived government role and green value respectively. The originality of this paper lays in the combination of these variables in a sole framework, within the specific setting of Malaysia. Specifically, the discussion and introduction of the two moderators would add to the theoretical and empirical body of knowledge, as both have not been examined as moderators in the extant studies which correlate media coverage and environmental awareness. Another contribution of this paper is the empirically-based suggestion as to why media coverage is better examined from the perspective of the end-user, and not the conventional provider-oriented perspective. In this view, the operationalization of media coverage is one of that oriented on the end-user, hence perceived media coverage. Towards the end, research questions and objectives were formulated to call for earnest empirical examination.