INTRODUCTION Public awareness of science is everything relating to the awareness, attitudes, behaviors, opinions, and activities that comprise the relations between the general public or lay society as a whole to scientific knowledge and organization.
NEEDS OF PUBLIC AWARNESS Join a group to study nature such as WWF-I or BNHS or any other organization Read newspaper articles and periodicals like Down to earth, WWF-I newsletter, BNHS, Hornbill, Sanctuary magazine. Discuss environmental issues with friends and relatives.
Join local movements that support activities like saving trees in your locality, reducing use of plastics, going for nature treks, practicing 3 Rs i.e. reduce, reuse, & recycle. Practice and promote good civic sense and hygiene such as enforcing no spitting or tobacco chewing, no throwing garbage on the road and no urinating in public places.
SCOPE OF PUBLIC AWARENESS Human beings live in villages, cities or towns which were originally forests, mountains or deserts. City dwellers have to get food from villages which grow various crops that are dependent on forests, grasslands, rivers, sea shores for resources such as water and nutrients. Our life depends on environment.
It provides natural goods such as lakes, landscape and wildlife. It supplies natural resources such as land, water, forests and minerals which are necessary for the production of economic goods. It functions as a dust bin to receive the discarded and waste materials generated in the process of economic activities FUNCTIONS