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enough [1]. Since then, scientists started viewing education as a fundamental way to provide the
public with more information and raise the awareness of environment issue [2].
Proof by fact, the combination of education and environment problems resulted in an awareness
booming at early 1970s. Countless environmental education conferences were held since then,
including the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm and the U.S.
Tbilisi Conference in 1977. In these conferences, scientists developed the definition of environmental
education from multiple aspects.
Most of the definitions focus on the purpose of it. According to the UN Conference on
Environment and Development, environmental education was “Education which is critical for
promoting sustainable development and improving the capacity of people to address environment and
development issues” [3]. The definition indicates that the essence of environmental education is to
sustain human life with scarce natural resource [4]. This result is further verified by another
conference. In 1991, caring for the Earth: a strategy for sustainable living came out. It emphasizes the
sustainable lifestyle behind environmental education. This document also asserted that “education
programs reflect the importance of an ethic for living sustainably” [5]. In other words, education
environment was expected to aim at optimizing human life patterns in a most eco-friendly way.
2.2. Urban forrest park
Visiting forest parks is a great way for people to interact with and learn from nature. This
approaching become especially significant for the urban population since they have limited resources
to access to the nature. In 2007, the urban share of China’s population was almost 44 percent [6].
With this increasing demand, urban forest parks were built all over China.
In 2005, a group of South Korea researchers gave the definition of such parks as “the parks provide
opportunities for active outdoor recreation as well as for quiet relaxation and escape from daily urban
stress.” Wonsop later in 2013 [7], Zhang explained urban forest parks in a different point of view as
“is protected from urbanization, serves as a site of biodiversity preservation and is termed the “green
lungs” of the urban agglomeration” [8].
As the easiest way to connect with nature, urban forest parks not only take the responsibility of
bringing beautiful views to people but also provide environmental education functions to the public.
China is not the only country that try to apply environmental education on tourists. Early in 1997, an
Australian researcher conducted a research about turning tourists into greenies through environment
education. Later in Sweden, a group of researchers conducted a research on urban forest gardens.
Their purpose is to provide “new opportunities for urban children to understand and develop
relationships with other organisms” [9]. But successful cases about utilizing the same system in urban
forest parks are relatively limited. By using means of planting, observation and interacting. Based on
their data, they concluded that children between six and twelve years developed values of humanistic,
symbolic, aesthetic and scientific rapidly [10]. Meanwhile, teenagers between thirteen and seventeen
are benefited from “a significant expansion in moralistic, naturalistic, and ecological components of
the scientific values of nature” [11].
3. Methodology
3.1. Research goal
Under this big background, it is natural for researchers to wonder the inner connect between the
satisfaction degree of a specific environmental education system and its efficiency. To be more
specific, it is necessary to dig deeper in to the root of an urban forest park, which is Beijing Olympic
Park in this case. The main goal of this is research is to evaluate the satisfaction degree of the
environmental education system of Beijing Olympic Park and the efficiency of this system.
Meanwhile, I will devote into searching for the probable improvements of this system. As a result,
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