Environmental dimension of social development

Abstract

In the construction of a perspective of environmental dimension for the social development there is of supreme importance the participation of all the sectors and social institutions, particularly of the higher education institutions. The answers demand to the environmental problems appears from the seventies with the birth of the environmental education. From the first international meetings in this matter, there was established the urgent need to incorporate the environmental perspective in the higher education, in order to generate the required internal changes, and this way to create a capacity that makes possible to them to offer pertinent answers to the environmental problems and they are active participants in the construction of desirable stages of development.