Integration of Environmental Economics to Build Economic Behaviors

Abstract

Environmental degradation is a global concern and an increasing one. Education is critical for promoting sustainable development and improving the capacity of people to address environment and development issues. As a conservation university, Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES) has an interest to integrate conservation values into every academician’s learning. One of the ways is by integrating environmental economics into its learning. This research aims at testing whether there is an influence of integration of environmental economics on the environmental economic behaviors of students of Economic Faculty, Universitas Negeri Semarang. In achieving the objective above, this research uses an experimental approach with factorial design. The research results show that (1) integration of environmental economics is conducted by learning planning, implementation and evaluation, (2) student’s understanding of environmental economy is low, (3) direct integration of environmental economics through Problem Base Learning is able to improve the experiment class’s environmental economic behavior, (4) integration of environmental economics does not reduce student’s ability in mastering the main competencies in economy, (5) environmental economic behavior is formed from various elements that affect it.

Keywords

• integration
• environmental economics
• economic behaviors