A Community-Supported Environmental Education Program at Toyama Prefectural University

Abstract

Toyama Prefectural University, the prefecture-owned university, offers an advanced environmental education program to the students. Many of them are supported by local communities in terms of personnel and technology. In this research, effectiveness of a Community-Supported Environmental Education Program, including the field tour, the field research, the forum and the eco-tour, was elucidated by the questionnaires to the students and by the impressions described in the reports by the students. The effectiveness of the education program supported by the local communities was confirmed, while it became clear that some improvements are still required to offer more attractive programs to the student, for example, a program established by both the university and the local community based on bilateral relationships.