The concept of sustainability and its connection to education
Sustainability is a multidisciplinary notion that involves the fields of environment, social science and economics, which has been introduced into a variety of curricula in high schools, colleges and universities that teaches students how to rationally deal with the resources available on the Earth and develop new technologies to produce more renewable resources to maintain a dynamic equilibrium (Robertson, 2014). Up to the modern society, sustainability has become a hot topic. Due to the huge increase of population in the world, the resources available on the Earth have outstripped the supply, therefore, specialists in many important fields such as politics, philosophy, economics and science have realised the significance of sustainable development and been tried to exploit renewable resources as well as new technologies. In order to meet the goal, the idea that develops sustainability skills and intensifies the awareness of environmental protection has been integrated into ma...