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both in local and global scalę. The article presents a verification and assessment of the effective education standards of selected faculties from the area of economy Sciences (economy, Computer Sciences and econometrics, fmances and accounting, intemational economic relations, spatial management, logistics) in the context of the broadly understood environmental education together with the curricula and teaching methods applied at different economy specialisations at the Faculty of Economy and Sociology of the University of Łódź in the scope of environmental education.

Marta Gollinger-Tarajko: Eco-design in the realisation of the goals of education for sustainable development. Education for sustainable development requires a careful coordination of the education process of engineers and masters of science students at the product research faculties. An education programme including examples of eco-design of products creates an opportunity to train a new-generation graduates, capable of an extended perception of the manufactured products and commodities taking into account the categories of sustainable development. The article presents some examples of training activities carried out at the Faculty of Product research at the University of Economy in Cracow. Syllabuses comprising the subjects of environmental education including a broad interpretation of the sustainable development categories have been realised within two specialisations: product research and production management and engineering.

Anna Duszak, Joanna Godlewska: The role of education in shaping the environmental awareness of the students at the technical University of Białystok. The article presents the results of a questionnaire survey concerning the level of environmental awareness of the students at the Technical University of Białystok. Issues related to the knowledge of environmental risks and environmental liability, individual activities and their motives of actions, information sources on environmental protection and the knowledge about organizations acting for environmental protection are discussed.

Mariola Drozda: A comprehensive system of waste management as an element of environmental education of society. The article addresses the topics related to environmental education and awareness of the Polish society. It describes types of environmental education which are aimed at providing the society with the knowledge which is concise and understandable to all addressees regardless of their age and level of education. The presented and characterised sources of the environmental knowledge transfer are aimed to remind that the care for a clean environment depends primarily from the residents and that this process begins already in our households. An important element discussed in the article concems the objectives and achieved results of an education, information and awareness rising campaign launched under the slogan “Think globaly-act locally”.

Anna Kuczuk: Emironmental education in agricultural farms. There is an increasing tendency among the agricultural farms to offer services related to the education for environmental protection in agriculture and rural areas. Environmental education carried out on farms is usually combined with environmental farming and considered as an opportunity for gaining additional profits. Environmental education on farms is addressed both to children, teenagers and adults visiting the farms as well as students performing their traineeship while simultaneously becoming a form of cooperation between the town and country.

Janusz R. Mroczek: Environmental agriculture programmes as instruments of education for sustainable development of rural areas on the example of the Podkarpacie region.