Investigation of the level of consciousness of citizens about the climate change

Fidan Aslanova ()
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Fidan Aslanova: Near East University

Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2018, vol. 52, issue 6, No 5, 2487-2493

Abstract: Abstract As of the first periods of history, the fact that human being has benefited from the natural resources and the efforts to improve life conditions has shown a continuous increase and diversification in the direction of technological developments. The fact that improving technological developments within time has provided people to intervene in the nature influentially, the usage of natural resources has reached a critical point in terms of both the environment and living creatures and it has caused to climate changes in conjunction with environmental pollution. This research has been conducted in order to investigate the consciousness level of native people living in different regions of Libya on climate issue. The universe of the research consisted of native people living in Libya, while the sample consisted of 300 Libyans. The scanning method was used in the research. A questionnaire was carried out in order that the levels of consciousness of participants on climate change could be investigated. The information that was obtained from the questionnaires were analyzed in computer environment by using SPSS 20.0 program. As a result, in this research, which was conducted with the aim of determining the level of consciousness about the climate change of Libyan people, there were significant differences about age, gender and education variables, and the people of Libya participating in the survey have been informed about climate change.

Keywords: Environment; Environmental consciousness; Climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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