Environmental Education in Waste Management : The Zambian Hospitality Industry

ISBN-13: 9783846533499 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 100 str.

Mirriam Sampa Moonga

Opis

In a country with a rapid population growth rate and huge inflow of tourists such as was the case with Zambia, in the year 2007, environmental issues needed to be checked and monitored closely. One such environmental issue that needed attention at the time of writing in 2007 was Waste Management. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to explore the role of Environmental Education (EE) in Waste Management for the Zambian Hospitality Industry of Lusaka urban. The study revealed that institutions responsible for the provision of EE to the hospitality industry had no specific or designed waste management EE curriculum for the hospitality industry. Instead, they offered a general sensitization program to the entire community, which did not meet the EE requirements of the hospitality industry. As a result of such generality, most of the hotel/lodge staff knew very little or nothing at all about professional issues of waste management. Hence, the poor waste management practices being practiced by the hospitality industry could be attributed partly to the lack of an EE policy in the industry.

O autorze

Mirriam Sampa Moonga is a lecturer at the University of Zambia (UNZA) in the School of Education. She holds a Bachelor of Education and a Master of Education in Environmental Education both from UNZA. She has taught at secondary school and currently lecturing in Environmental Education and Education for sustainable development at UNZA.