Exploring Postgraduate Students’ Knowledge about Environmental Sustainable Development and How This Is Being Applied

Abstract

Sustainable development is universally acknowledged as meeting the needs of the current generation without impacting on the next generation. Sustainable development is often synonymous with creating an ideal sustainable management vision to help manage sustainability issues. Such vision usually involves creating environmental sustainability policies to aid the reduction of the depletion of natural resources, provision of energy and use with minimal impact on the environment, waste management, provision of water and waste water management, among others. Students are often seen as agents of change and many will be the leaders of tomorrow, this fact informed this study. The study adopted a quantitative approach using survey questionnaires and collected data was analysed using descriptive statistics. We found students possessed appropriate knowledge needed about environmentally sustainable development, good understanding of environmental issues and practices for resolving these and were engaged and contributing to sustainable development.