Environmental Awareness and its Importance in Achieving Sustainable Development in the City of Benghazi

Abstract

Environmental  awareness is important in the lives of all societies, whether developed or developing, but the need for this awareness among developing societies is more severe because the relationship between environmental awareness and comprehensive development that developing societies seek to achieve, and this study aims to discover the importance of environmental awareness in achieving development. Sustainable development in the city of Benghazi. In order to achieve this goal, the study relied on the scientific method of inductive analysis based on the holistic and qualitative analysis of information. The results of the study showed that the visual radio had constituted the most important media source among the various other sources, and in the second place came the audio radio From this comes the third means represented by poster flags, and the role of the press becomes fourth, and public symposia fifth and finally, the light media has a lower ranking, which means that there is interest in environmental awareness interest in environmental awareness as a result of the interest of the media and many institutions in environmental awareness  and the formation of good environmental awareness.

Key words:  Environmental awareness, sustainable development, Benghazi city