Volume : 6, Issue : 1, January - 2017

AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF WOMEN AWARENESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN HARYANA

Nisha

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Women are primary providers of household food, fuel and water for cooking, heating, drinking and washing. Women have direct contact with the natural environment as they collect essential items like fruits, vegetables, medicinal herbs, fuel wood, fodder, water etc. for their every day needs.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">They are fully aware that their livelihood and family welfare is linked to the potential of sustainable resource base and therefore, environment is to be conserved to meet their long - term needs. The study examines awareness and causes of rural women about environmental degradation and losses due to agricultural practices in Haryana. The present study is conducted in Haryana state and two districts Bhiwani and Karnal were selected, purposively. The result of the present study indicated that most of the respondents had medium to high level of awareness about the environment degradation in</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Bhiwani and Karnal districts. The most important thing is that women are interested to know the impact of environment degradation on human, animals, plants health and agriculture production.&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:&#10;.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>