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Issue/Problem
VI. Lack of awareness
Threats Causes Impacts Significance
1. Absence of
environmental
education in schools
and Universities
2. Lack of trained
school teachers in
environmental
education
3. Modest
environmental
programs in the
media
1. Critical
2. Critical
3. Critical
- Lack of awareness of the need for
such educational material
(improving)
- Dependence on teaching
traditional fields of expertise
- Absence of specialized
instructors in the field of
environment
- Absence of higher education
degrees in marine science at all
Lebanese Universities
- Difficulty in training teachers
with no environmental
background
- Scattered and minimal
information on Lebanese coastal
and marine fauna and flora
- Absence of reporters with
environmental backgrounds
- General lack of interest unless
political implications are
involved
- Lack of interest from viewers due
to lack of awareness
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Prepared By M. Nader & S. Talhouk June, 2002
- Delay in acknowledging the
need to preserve marine and
coastal habitats
- Increase in practices with
negative impacts
- Delay in initiating research in
biodiversity conservation
- Abuse of the marine coastal
environment
- Increase of polluting practices
with no public accountability
- Delay in educating young
generations about the
importance of coastal and
marine biodiversity
- Delay in educating young
generations about the
importance of the preservation
of biodiversity
- Indiscriminate practices with
negative impacts by the
Lebanese population
- Delay in developing the
awareness of the population for
conservation
- Absence of transparency and
accountability on
environmental violation
activities
1. High
2. High
3. High