STUDY THE ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN PUNE DISTRICT

Education is one of the most effective force that can save our besieged environment. Environmental Ethics is the scientific study of various issues related to the rights of individual on the environment. It is the moral relationship of human beings with the environment. Students of Standard XI, studying in the higher secondary school in Pune. Secondary school students were taken as the sample for the present study. The size of the sample is 800. It is found that the higher secondary students have high environmental ethics. The girls have high environmental ethics than the boys; the higher secondary students from urban areas have higher environmental ethics than the students from rural areas; the higher secondary students from the private schools have higher environmental ethics than the students from government schools. The higher secondary students residing in rented houses have higher Environmental Ethics than the students residing in their own houses.