The Attitudes of Governmental Official in Terms of Sustainable Environment

Autor/inn/en	Yurttas, Arefe; Çaglar, Atila
Titel	The Attitudes of Governmental Official in Terms of Sustainable Environment
Quelle	In: International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 9 (2019) 2, S.142-156 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2146-0329
Schlagwörter	Sustainable Development; Conservation (Environment); Employee Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Government Employees; Ecology; Participant Characteristics; Gender Differences; Public Officials; Work Experience; Educational Attainment; Place of Residence; Rural Urban Differences; Interests; Knowledge Level; Participation; Natural Resources; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Ausland; Ökologie; Geschlechterkonflikt; Employment experience; Job experience; Occupational experience; Berufserfahrung; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Wohnort; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Bildungsinteresse; Wissensbasis; Teilnahme; Natural Ressource; Natürliche Ressource; Türkei
Abstract	The inhabitable environment for all living beings is the first condition of the continuity of life in the world. The environment is an indispensable setting for all individuals and the damage to the environment is of utmost importance to every sector. The increase in population and the environmental problems it brings are forcing countries to take measures and to raise more environmentalist individuals. In particular, environmental degradation done involuntarily and wastes resulting from excessive consumption pose a big problem. Although the environment is a setting where all creatures live together, the greatest impact is made by human beings. Studies on environmental issues often focus on educational environments including educators and students. However, all positive or negative environmental activities are followed carefully by the whole society. It is known that individuals' attitudes towards the environment are generally either human-centred ("Anthropocentric") or environment-centred ("Ecocentric"), or totally anti-environmental. This study was applied to 300 personnel working in different branches of the public sector in order to determine which of these three attitudes they are more inclined to, and what demographic characteristics affect them. The applied questionnaire is a 7-scale Likert type with 27 articles consisting of 12 articles that measure environmental-centred attitudes, 8 articles that measure human-centred attitudes, and 7 articles that measure antipathetic attitudes towards the environment. In addition, more detailed information about the individuals was obtained by applying another questionnaire with demographic features. It has been determined that ecocentric attitudes in governmental officials' behaviours towards the environment is higher. In antipathetic attitudes towards the environment, on the other hand, the situation is in favour of males. There was no significant difference observed in the environment-related ecocentric and anthropocentric attitudes in the place of residence variable. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education. Aksaray Universitesi, Egitim Fakultesi, Ilkogretim Bolumu, Kampus, Aksaray 68100, Turkey. e-mail: iejeegreen@gmail.com; Web site: http://dergipark.gov.tr/iejeegreen
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01