Environmental education : the Malta experience

Abstract

Everywhere, people strive for a better quality of life. Often, they focus on the attainment of better social and economic conditions at the expense of the environment, which rapidly deteriorates. As a consequence the more enterprising individuals migrate to areas with a pristine environment only to spoil it to satisfy their selfish needs and effectively spread environmental degradation. Nowhere is this process more evident than on small islands, where the escalating demands of a better quality of human life render their ecosystems more vulnerable. Nowhere also is the need for regulation of development more pressing.