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Synopsis Environmental education is an essential tool for achieving effective resource management and sustainable development. It encompasses awareness raising, acquiring new perspective, values, knowledge and skills, and both the formal and informal processes that lead to a changed behaviour in support of a sustainable environment. Environmental education brings the real world into the classroom, empowering learners to make positive changes in their local communities and in the world. Teachers who introduce environmental topic such as rain forest destruction, endangered animal/ species and global climate change into their lessons find that students are fascinated by the problems these issues present. The present volume contains valuable information on diverse aspects of teaching environmental education. It will prove of utmost use for teachers and students of environmental science.