The Role of Education in Sustaining Environmental Sustainability at Rural Region in Yogyakarta

Abstract

Supporting sustainable development is required the role of education to encourage people toward sustainability in the future. For this reason, the goal of the study is to investigate the relation of environmental education toward environmental attitude and environmental citizenship behavior (ECBs) who is perceived by high school students at Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta. As many as 215 respondents are involved in this study. The result shows the significant effect at 5 percent on the paths of analysis and proves the mediating impact on environmental attitude in linking the construct of environmental education toward ECBs. It finds a good relationship in improving ECBs for students. As a suggestion, the regional government could encourage the ECBs through collaborating with stakeholders to innovate the green campaign for sustaining the environmental sustainability at Kulon Progo. This harmony will be a mechanism to educate people, institutions, and organizations to preserve natural resources in the future.