Contribution of Geography in Social Studies Education to Inculcate Environmental Awareness

Humans have an essential role in dealing with problems that arise due to their interactions with the environment. Lack of environmental awareness causes many problems. A scientific discipline that studies the relationship between humans and the environment, namely geography. Through the contribution of geography in social studies education, it is hoped that the community, especially studies, will have high environmental awareness. This research aims to describe social studies learning that can help and significantly contribute to instilling environmental awareness in the entire community, including students. This study uses literature or literature studies by collecting various related literature to be analyzed for this paper's purposes. Literature study research in synthesizing the data that has been collected is written in narrative form. This study describes the contribution of geography in social studies learning to instill environmental awareness by studying materials related to environmental differences, population growth, and utilization of natural resource potentials.