Investigation of the effective indexes on the environmental culture of people in Mashhad
Subject Areas : Urban EnvironmentGhasem Zolfaghari 1 , zohreh akhgari sangatash 2 , Amaneh Sazgar 3 , Mohammad bolbolian ghalibaf 4
1 - Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Hakim Sabzevari University, Khorasan -e- Razavi, Sabzevar, P.O. Box: 397, Iran. *(Corresponding Author)
2 - Ph.D, Department of Environmental, Faculty of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran.
3 - MSc, Department of Environment, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
4 - Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Hakim Sabzevari University, Khorasan -e- Razavi, Sabzevar, Iran.
Keywords: Behavior, Knowledge, Attitude, Environmental culture, Mashhad.,
Abstract :
Background and Objective: The emergence of environmental problems and its increasing flow has been the subject matter of many researchers and experts in the environment domain. Providing a culture, focused on the enhancement of environmental culture, that needs to recognize the effects of principles and effective criteria on environment's culture.
Material and Methodology: In the present study, the aim is recognizing and revising the cultural rankings of some effective factors on knowledge, attitudes, positive behaviors and increasing the public culture for the better planning. The present study, involved a questionnaire about attitude, and analytically with certain degree of 95%. The considered sample, used by NCSS software, was four hundred people.
Findings: The results raised from the statistical analysis by SPSS software version 16 show that there is a meaningful and positive relation between the effective indexes on environmental culture )P<%5.(
Discussion and Conclusion: The results also show that from 5 revised criteria in this study, there is a meaningful relation between the criterion of education with the indexes of attitude, the people's environmental knowledge and the criterion of job and their indexes of attitude and environmental behavior. Therefore, the managers and the responsible people in these two parts must go further to refine and enhance the people's environmental culture by different ways. It's also suggested that pay more attention on the effective factors on enhancement of environmental culture in future studies and the responsible organizations in cultural affairs go further to refine and enhance it.
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